Herbert Spencer Quotes

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
Herbert Spencer

Poetry, Scientific, Entered

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
Herbert Spencer

Prejudice, Prejudiced

Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spencer

Education, Character, Object

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
Herbert Spencer

Change, Science, Important

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
Herbert Spencer

Government, Old, Off

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
Herbert Spencer

Ignorance, Lives, Shortened

Science is organized knowledge.
Herbert Spencer

Knowledge, Science, Organized

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
Herbert Spencer

Society, Exists, Benefit

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer

Education, Great, Knowledge

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Herbert Spencer

Health, Few, Seem

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
Herbert Spencer

Might, Written, Pious

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

Freedom, Tax, Clearly

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
Herbert Spencer

Selfish, Law, Wild

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 usually not been entirely wrong.
Herbert Spencer

Past, Wrong, Fact

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.
Herbert Spencer

Change, Matter, Idea

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
Herbert Spencer

Nature, Government, Human

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: April 27, 1820

Died: December 8, 1903

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