Quotes By Herbert Spencer

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

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

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

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

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.