Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
HERBERT SPENCERThe great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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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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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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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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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