Herbert Spencer Quotes
If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude to acquire these kinds of knowledge in the same order. So that even were the order intrinsically indifferent, it would facilitate education to lead the individual mind through the steps traversed by the general mind. But the order is not intrinsically indifferent; and hence the fundamental reason why education should be a repetition of civilization in little.
Herbert Spencer
Quotes to Explore
There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.
Fernando Botero
One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
I come from a council estate in Tower Hamlets, and by no means am I the only person who has done well - one of my friends is head of year in a great school in Twickenham. Another is a writer; another is an artist, a musician.
Eddie Marsan
Once you've figured out how to wait on people and clean toilets, it makes you very mindful of how you treat the people who are serving you.
Garth Brooks
Sugar crystallizes something in our American soul. It is emblematic of all industrial processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White being equated with pure and 'true': it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.
Kara Walker
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
Ralph Marston
Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.'
Bam Margera
We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
Arthur Eddington
I don't necessarily think, as a person of influence, that it's always my job to influence people regarding my opinion.
Chance The Rapper
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.
David Elliott
I love cocktails. My specialty drink is a gimlet with a little egg white in it so it gets frothy. I really like rose water - sometimes I'll add it to champagne.
Christina Hendricks
We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.
Christina Ricci