Quotes from Herbert Spencer

The profoundest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.

M?c Ä'ích t?i th??ng c?a giáo d?c không ph?i là ki?n th?c mà là hành Ä'á»™ng.

Do but consider for a moment that the regimen to which children are subject, is hourly telling upon them to their lifelong injury or benefit; and that there are twenty ways of going wrong to one way of going right; and you will get some idea of the enormous mischief that is almost everywhere inflicted by the thoughtless, haphazard system in common use.

Hidup itu ialah kelancaran hubungan diri dengan luar diri.

As long as the acquisition of knowledge is rendered habitually repugnant, so long will there be a prevailing tendency to discontinue it when free from the coercion of parents and masters.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Education is preparation to live completely.

The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.

Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

Science is organized knowledge.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman