Herbert Spencer quotes

" The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. " # Fools and Foolishness # Adversity # Wisdom

" Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. " # Opinions

" Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. " # Life and Living # Attitude # Freedom

" The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. " # Education # Knowledge # Action

" All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires. " # Uncategorised # Slavery # Friends and Friendship

" Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold. " # Risk # Boldness # Courage

" A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. " # Juries # Law and Lawyers # Ignorance

" Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him. " # Time and Time Management

" Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious naturethis is alike the aim of parent and teacher. " # Uncategorised # Education # Teachers and Teaching

" The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is -- a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter. " # Evolution # Ideas # Change