The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
HERBERT SPENCERBe bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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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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