More from Herbert Spencer
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Government is essentially immoral.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer 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.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
Joseph ConradJoseph Conrad Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge that you have put hard work and achievement behind you.
Kazuo IshiguroKazuo Ishiguro As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?
John MiltonJohn Milton A lot of learning can be a little thing.
Spike MilliganSpike Milligan There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson