1820-1903, British Philosopher
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Herbert Spencer – [Law and Lawyers]
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Herbert Spencer – [Juries]
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Herbert Spencer – [Change]
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
Herbert Spencer – [Risk]
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
Herbert Spencer – [Kings]
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Herbert Spencer – [Words]
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Herbert Spencer – [Life and Living]
Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.
Herbert Spencer – [Love]
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
Herbert Spencer – [Marriage]
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Herbert Spencer – [Happiness]
Science is organized knowledge.
Herbert Spencer – [Science and Scientists]
The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is — a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.
Herbert Spencer – [Evolution]
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Herbert Spencer – [Health]
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature — a type nowhere at present existing.
Herbert Spencer – [Republican]
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer – [Fools and Foolishness]
There is one principle that can keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That is contempt prior to investigation.
Herbert Spencer – [Ignorance]
Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
Herbert Spencer – [Time and Time Management]