238 Quotes by Thomas Henry Huxley

Man’s Place in Nature.

I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.

My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one’s ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account.

There is assuredly no more effectual method of clearing up one’s own mind on any subject than by talking it over, so to speak, with men of real power and grasp, who have considered it from a totally different point of view.

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

No one can help another very much in these crises of life; but love and sympathy count for something.