233 Quotes by Herbert Spencer

"The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry."

"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"

"Noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers."

"No one can be perfectly free till all are free."

"To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth."

"The survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life."

"Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear; so surely must man become perfect."

"Or it needs only to look back over past centuries and the iniquities alike of populace, nobles, kings, and popes to perceive an almost incomprehensible futility of the beliefs everywhere held and perpetually insisted upon"

"Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher."

"of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman."