"We too often forget that not only is……" — Herbert Spencer
"We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous."
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Herbert Spencer
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113 Quotes by Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer has 113 quotes on this site.
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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred…
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When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on,…
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the…
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Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
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A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
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No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the…
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The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become…
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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less…
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A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that…
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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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Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.
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More Erroneous Quotes
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one of 89 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I've learned the hard way at the national level that any erroneous statement will very quickly be magnified. So, as…
— Michele Bachmann
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This land is a monopoly of erroneous ideas.
— Adriano Celentano
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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be…
— Thomas Hobbes
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We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by…
— Thomas Huxley
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[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the…
— H. L. Mencken
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It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.
— Ernst Mayr
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What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the…
— Francis Crick
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Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.
— Peter Drucker
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Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.
— Alexander Hamilton
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...the Muslims of recent times had fallen very short indeed of the ideals of their faith, ...nothing could be more…
— Muhammad Asad
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There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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