Herbert Spencer

"Silence is the ornament of the wise."

"Liberty, like fire, must be carried forward."

"The law of life is sacrifice and reward."

"Objects in themselves are nothing; they become somethings only through our thinking."

"Competition is the spice of life."

"The worth of a state is the worth of the individuals composing it."

"That which we call conscience is the product of our social relations."

"The degree of an individual's sensibility is the measure of his kinship to all organic being."

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

"The human mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."

"Perfection is not designed but evolved."

"Truth is the correspondence between thought and reality."

"Social harmony is based on the coordination of differences."

"Work is the means of achieving self-respect."

"The function of health is to enable normal life."

"Mystery requires faith; science requires evidence."

"Individuality is the basis of society."

"The mind grows by what it feeds upon."

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."

"Pleasures are all we live for; yet we deplore them."

"Continuity of purpose is the essence of success."

"Love is life's glorious lesson."

"The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be."

"Justice is not an accident but the natural consequence of right action."

"Wisdom is not information but insight."

"The universe, as we know it, is a union of the knowable and the unknowable."

"Progress results only from the competition of individual effort."

"Reason is the most precious faculty in man."

"The degree of civilization is the measure of the restraint of violence."

"Beauty is relative and culturally determined."