Herbert Spencer Quotes

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Herbert Spencer

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• Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Character
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Book
  • Write
  • Fans

• In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Knowledge
  • Moving
  • Best

• Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Car
  • Better
  • Exercise

• I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • You
  • Couple

• It's like, boom! – I've got a girlfriend. It turned out to be a good thing because it made me a rapper.

  

  Young Thug
  • Good
  • Made
  • Thing

• And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Work
  • Government
  • New

• In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

  

  E. M. Forster

• Ch. XIX : Grand Pontiff, p. 321

  

  Albert Pike

• We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think – in fact they do so.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • World
  • Die

• Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

  

  Aesop

• There were episodes where I would wear seven or eight outfits. It took a lot of time to get those together. What the character wears is very essential to how I create the character.

  

  Donna Mills
  • Time
  • Character
  • Together

• To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin'.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Business

• I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

  

  Emo Philips
  • Night
  • Alone
  • Thanks

• Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.

  

  Bill Klem
  • Job
  • Player

• I've always been a girl's girl, and I've always enjoyed my girl friends' relationships, so I want the girls who follow me to feel like we're besties.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Friends
  • Girl

• If I think of the audience too much, then I'm going to start catering to them...and it turns into entertainment. And I've got time for entertainment; I'm just not at all that interested in doing it myself. I'd rather go for some pretty raw expression.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Audience
  • Entertainment

• Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Life is
  • Spell
  • Conspires

• For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • World
  • Famous
  • Titanic

• Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Freedom
  • Worship
  • Strongest