Herbert Spencer

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."

"Progress is not an accident but a necessity."

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."

"Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations."

"Survival of the fittest."

"The man who gives way to violent passions will never govern his life by wisdom."

"Science is organized knowledge."

"There cannot be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously upon practical men."

"The true definition of tragedy is when the desires and the capacities are at odds."

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

"Everyone is subject to the same physical laws."

"The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the desire."

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

"Morality cannot exist without despotism and despotism cannot exist without morality."

"The wise man doesn't give the right answer, he possesses the right questions."

"Flexibility is the path of least resistance."

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean."

"The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own breath."

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

"The man of science must work with method and system."

"Lack of adjustment to one's environment is the cause of all disease."

"Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity."

"There is no greater curse than the curse of ignorance."

"The feeling of having done injustice is the badge of the hypocrite."

"Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, yet it is killing him."

"No one can claim to be called Christian who is not just in his dealings with all men."

"The pleasure we derive from the exercise of any power is proportionate to the skill displayed."

"A man must learn to endure what he cannot avoid."

"In the degree that a man reasons, he becomes less a slave to his impulses."

"Individuality is the assertion of the will against the world."