Herbert Spencer Quotes


Herbert Spencer

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Science is organized knowledge.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation

A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance