Herbert Spencer Quotes

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."
-Herbert Spencer in Education quotes.

"Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit."
-Herbert Spencer in Music quotes.

"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."
-Herbert Spencer in Information quotes.

"Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect."
-Herbert Spencer

"A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman."
-Herbert Spencer

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

"Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society."
-Herbert Spencer in Society quotes.

"The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future."
-Herbert Spencer in Knowledge quotes.

"Education has for its object the formation of character."
-Herbert Spencer in Education quotes.

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."
-Herbert Spencer in World quotes.