Thomas H. Huxley Quotes


Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, whether you like it or not. Thomas H. Huxley Education 133
It is better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains. Thomas H. Huxley Freedom 86
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. Thomas H. Huxley Man 84
This may not be the best of all possible worlds, but to say that it is the worst is mere petulant nonsense. Thomas H. Huxley World 79
I care not what subject is taught if only it be taught well. Thomas H. Huxley Education 60
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. Thomas H. Huxley Failure 58
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. Thomas H. Huxley Right 54
There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is. Thomas H. Huxley Truth 51
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? Thomas H. Huxley Knowledge 48
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. Thomas H. Huxley Action 48
Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting. Thomas H. Huxley Truth 35

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