"When a man's knowledge is not in order,……" — Herbert Spencer
"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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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 Confusion Quotes
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all…
— Nancy Astor
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the…
— Charles Babbage
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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
— Francis Bacon
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want…
— John Adams
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
— Jose Bergamin
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The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
— James Agee
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I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
— Daniel Boone
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Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
— Marlon Brando
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I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
— A. Whitney Brown
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