Herbert Spencer Quotes

Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts in his memory in a way that no mere information heard from a teacher, or read in a schoolbook, can be registered.

Herbert Spencer

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• I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Think
  • Myself
  • English

• Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Know

• My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Mother
  • Today
  • Mean

• I can say this: You haven't lived until you've had to wear a triplet pregnancy belly. You would be amazed at what a girl can learn based on the different months of pregnancy to make her character more interesting.

  

  KaDee Strickland
  • Different
  • Character
  • Girl

• The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Way
  • Exist
  • Prejudice

• Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Regardless
  • Legislation

• I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Success
  • Hate
  • Failure

• Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Understand

• It was the Cosby issue that made me realize how much I really cared about women's issues and how much I realize it's important for me to be an advocate for issues that aren't necessarily my own, to be an ally for issues.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Important
  • Women
  • Me

• The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Business
  • Book
  • Reading

• I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Home
  • Truth
  • Game

• There's no job like 'SNL.' There's no other job you go to where you're like, 'Oh, this is like that live, late-night sketch variety-musical show that shoots in, whatever it is, 10,000 feet of sound stage.' There's nothing like it.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Live
  • Job
  • Night

• Kerchak was dead. Withdrawing the knife that had so often rendered him master of far mightier muscles than his own, Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his vanquished enemy, and once again, loud through the forest rang the fierce, wild cry of the conqueror.And thus came the young Lord Greystoke into the kingship of the Apes.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Enemy
  • Forest
  • Fierce

• Let's grow old and die together. Let's do it now.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Together
  • Die

• When I was 20, my mother died and I went off the rails a little bit. I kinda had my slightly dark period.

  

  James McCartney
  • Mother
  • Dark
  • Period

• In addition to the vehicles currently known, the holy grail of commercial spaceflight remains a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) reusable spaceplane.

  

  Dylan Taylor
  • Single

• You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.

  

  Mick Jones The Clash
  • Writing
  • Small

• Little things can make such a big difference during recording.

  

  Matt Cameron Pearl Jam

• You're always carrying something that's interfering. It's like static noise that doesn't have to be there, and you have to school yourself to clean that out.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • School

• You have to have a short memory as a closer.

  

  Frank Robinson

• I care about the diversity of the mindset of the people creating our future, and the windows through which we see it, and the tools we use to build it.

  

  Baratunde Thurston
  • People
  • Future
  • Diversity

• At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Game
  • Beginning
  • Unique

• Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts in his memory in a way that no mere information heard from a teacher, or read in a schoolbook, can be registered.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Mind
  • Learning
  • Problem