Herbert Spencer Quotes - Famous Quotes by Herbert Spencer
Born: 1820-04-27
Died: 1903-12-08
Herbert Spencer Biography
A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
- Herbert Spencer
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A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.
- Herbert Spencer
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
- Herbert Spencer
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
- Herbert Spencer
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
- Herbert Spencer
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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
- Herbert Spencer
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
- Herbert Spencer
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
- Herbert Spencer
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
- Herbert Spencer
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Science is organized knowledge.
- Herbert Spencer
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
- Herbert Spencer
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
- Herbert Spencer
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
- Herbert Spencer
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When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
- Herbert Spencer
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