Quote

We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

Herbert Spencer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
Anthropologist
Botanist
Economist
Journalist
Philosopher
Psychologist
Sociologist
Writer
Derby
Derbyshire
Spencert
Gerbert Spencer
Goodness
Forget
Evil
Often
Truth
Also
Soul
Erroneous
Things
Generally

More quotes by Herbert Spencer

Image
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.
Herbert Spencer
Image
This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.
Herbert Spencer
Image
The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expression fully responded to the state of feeling, would unconsciously use that variety in the mode of presenting his thoughts, which Art demands.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.
Herbert Spencer
Image
I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the relative paucity of the restraints it imposes on him.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.
Herbert Spencer
Image
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Science is organized knowledge.
Herbert Spencer
Image
The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.
Herbert Spencer
Image
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
Herbert Spencer
Image
In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
Herbert Spencer
Image
It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.
Herbert Spencer
Image
It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to a particular phase of human development. It is not essential, but incidental. As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government, so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct.
Herbert Spencer
Image
All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed.
Herbert Spencer
Image
The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.
Herbert Spencer
Image
So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.
Herbert Spencer