Famous Quotes / Herbert Spencer
24 Quotations by Herbert Spencer
- 1. A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
- 2. A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
- 3. A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment t ...
- 4. Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
- 5. Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
- 6. Education has for its object the formation of character.
- 7. How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
- 8. It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a cer ...
- 9. Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
- 10. Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's ...
- 11. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the ge ...
- 12. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the ge ...
- 13. No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no ...
- 14. Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexp ...
- 15. Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
- 16. Science is organized knowledge.
- 17. The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
- 18. The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is -- a change from an indefinite, incoherent homoge ...
- 19. The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical mora ...
- 20. The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires ...