The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
HERBERT SPENCERDivine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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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.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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