Herbert Spencer Famous Quotes
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
"Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity."
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
"If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making"
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Education has for its object the formation of character.
"Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect."
Herbert Spencer Quotations
He who receives a benefit should never forget it he who bestow should never remember it.
Pierre Charron
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
George Herbert
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
Emma Goldman
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
Martin Luther
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
William Blackstone
Years and sins are always more than owned.
Italian Proverb
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper
Those who complain most are most to be complained of.
Matthew Henry
"Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness."
John Calvin
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy