|
Thomas H. Huxley - From the Authority category:
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. (Thomas H. Huxley)
Thomas H. Huxley - From the Belief category:
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. (Thomas H. Huxley)
Thomas H. Huxley - From the Books category:
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. (Thomas H. Huxley)
Thomas H. Huxley - From the Choices category:
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. (Thomas H. Huxley)
Thomas H. Huxley - From the Danger category:
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? (Thomas H. Huxley)
Thomas H. Huxley - From the Education category:
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. (Thomas H. Huxley)
Thomas H. Huxley - From the Education category:
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. (Thomas H. Huxley)
Thomas H. Huxley - From the Goodness category:
I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men. (Thomas H. Huxley)
Thomas H. Huxley - From the Growth category:
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. (Thomas H. Huxley)
Thomas H. Huxley - From the Guidance category:
Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards. (Thomas H. Huxley)
Thomas H. Huxley - From the Happiness category:
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. (Thomas H. Huxley)
Thomas H. Huxley - From the Importance category:
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. (Thomas H. Huxley)
Thomas H. Huxley - From the Keys category:
Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box. (Thomas H. Huxley)
Thomas H. Huxley - From the Knowledge category:
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. (Thomas H. Huxley)
Thomas H. Huxley - From the Money category:
Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely. (Thomas H. Huxley)
Thomas H. Huxley - From the Morality category:
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit. (Thomas H. Huxley)
Thomas H. Huxley - From the Patience category:
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. (Thomas H. Huxley)
Thomas H. Huxley - From the Possibilities category:
There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite. (Thomas H. Huxley)
Thomas H. Huxley - From the Religion category:
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic.' (Thomas H. Huxley)
Thomas H. Huxley - From the Rules category:
The chessboard is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call laws of nature. (Thomas H. Huxley)
Thomas H. Huxley - From the Strategy category:
Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone. (Thomas H. Huxley)
Thomas H. Huxley - From the Thinking category:
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy. (Thomas H. Huxley)
Thomas H. Huxley - From the Truth category:
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified. (Thomas H. Huxley)
Thomas H. Huxley - From the Universe category:
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. (Thomas H. Huxley)
| 
