Quotes of Herbert Spencer - somelinesforyou

“ Education has for its object the formation of character. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has, the greater is his confusion. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature — a type nowhere at present existing. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ Music must rank as the highest of the arts — more than any other, it ministers to human welfare. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on remembering the comparative force with which simple ideas are communicated by signs. To say, "Leave the room," is less expressive than to point to the door… ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ All Socialism involves slavery. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong. ”

- Herbert Spencer
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