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Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than pleasure and hap...
By Thomas Henry Huxley
Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.
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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics—none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfal...
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The very existence of society depends on the fact that every member of it tacitly admits he is not the exclusive possessor of himself, and tha...
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The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who ...
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The motive of the drama of human life is the necessity, laid upon every man who comes into the world, of discovering the mean between self-ass...
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The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
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That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ...
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People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.
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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, wheth...
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Life is like walking along a crowded street—there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement—and yet, if ...
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It is a great many years since at the outset of my career I had to think seriously what life had to offer that was worth having. I came to the...
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It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organis...
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I have always been, am, and propose to remain a mere scholar. All that I have ever proposed to myself is to say, this and this I have learned;...
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I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligib...
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No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
By Thomas Henry Huxley
Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
By Thomas Henry Huxley
Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does it help me to tell me that the aspirations of mankind
By Thomas Henry Huxley
I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense deal to be done in the science pure and simple, and it is one of those branches of inquiry which brings one into contact with the great problems of humanity in every direction.
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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
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Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
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It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is only the people who have to stop to be washed and made clean, who must necessarily lose the race. And I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance
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There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.
By Thomas Henry Huxley
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
By Thomas Henry Huxley