All Herbert Spencer Quotes
- Reading is seeing by proxy. Inspirational
- To have a specific style is to be poor in speech. Poor
- Anyone who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that the tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation… Action
- Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two… Action
- Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by… Adequately
- Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect… Ascribe
- Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person. All
- For what is meant by saying that a government ought to educate the people? Why should they be educated? What is the education for? Clearly,… Child
- 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… Been
- To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth. Billiards
- Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So… Accident
- Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more… Acquired
- To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth Billiards
- If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, then he is… All
- The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the… Civilization
- Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to all other parts of the globe, yet most, if… All
- Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost. Anyone
- Feudalism, serfdom, slavery, all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kind to rule, springing out of, and necessarily to, a bad state of man.… All
- Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten… Aggression
- The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad. All