| Quotes |
Topic |
| Advice | Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. |
| Advice | If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? |
| Science | It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. |
| Consequences | Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. |
| Education | Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature. |
| Harm | Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. |
| Inspirational | The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only hold man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. |
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| Inspirational | There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. |
| Inspirational | The great end of life is not knowledge but action. |
| Government | Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. |
| Government | ...a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. |
| Psychological Subjects | Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. |
| Psychological Subjects | In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration. |
| Psychological Subjects | Veracity is the heart of morality. |
| Religion | The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge. |
| Society | Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. |
| Society | Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. |
| Society | The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. - Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley. |
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