Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
HERBERT SPENCEREvery cause produces more than one effect.
More Herbert Spencer Quotes
-
-
When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
HERBERT SPENCER -
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
HERBERT SPENCER -
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
HERBERT SPENCER -
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
HERBERT SPENCER -
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
HERBERT SPENCER -
Science is organized knowledge.
HERBERT SPENCER -
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
HERBERT SPENCER -
Education has for its object the formation of character.
HERBERT SPENCER -
All socialism involves slavery.
HERBERT SPENCER -
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
HERBERT SPENCER -
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
HERBERT SPENCER -
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
HERBERT SPENCER -
In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
HERBERT SPENCER -
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
HERBERT SPENCER -
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
HERBERT SPENCER






