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The primary use of knowledge is for such guidance of conduct under all circumstances as shall make living complete. All other uses of knowledge are secondary.
Herbert Spencer
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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
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When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.
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The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many in shallows and in miseries, are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.
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Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.
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Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.
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Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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