Herbert Spencer Quotes
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
Herbert Spencer
Quotes to Explore
If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
Jack Welch
I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.
Eddie Marsan
When I was pregnant, I was like, 'I'm pregnant, so I'm allowed to eat everything: bagels with cream cheese for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and I can have pizza for dessert.'
Lake Bell
If only she could have held on to that day, held on to that moment forever, grasped it in her fists so it wouldn't escape. If only.
Patricia Reilly Giff
Racist people, interestingly, are never as polite as smokers. Have you noticed that? Smokers always go, 'Do you mind if I smoke? Oh, you do? Okay, I'll go outside and have a cigarette.' Racist people never go, 'Do you mind if I'm racist? Oh, I'll go outside … fucking blue people, eh? Coming here, steal our hamsters …'
Eddie Izzard
In the future, women will increasingly want men who can nurture them and connect with them.
Warren Farrell
I heard them cry - the peacocks. Was it a cry against the twilight Or against the leaves themselves Turning in the wind, Turning as the flames Turned in the fire, Turning as the tails of the peacocks Turned in the loud fire, Loud as the hemlocks Full of the cry of the peacocks? Or was it a cry against the hemlocks?
Wallace Stevens
Nil igitur mors est ad nos neque pertinet hilum,quandoquidem natura animi mortalis habetur.
Lucretius
La maladie est le plus écouté des médecins: à la bonté, au savoir on ne fait que promettre; on obéit à la souffrance.5
Marcel Proust
The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.
Bertrand Russell
My father was a Brownie, Sir; My mother was a Fairy. The notion had occurred to her, The children would be happier, If they were taught to vary. The notion soon became a craze; And, when it once began, she Brought us all out in different ways - One was a Pixy, two were Fays, Another was a Banshee.
Lewis Carroll
The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.
Kenneth Langone
