Herbert Spencer Quotes

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Herbert Spencer

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• Feelings
• Instinct
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• Determined

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• Writing has been handed to me on a plate.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Plate

• When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Different
  • Live

• I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Friends
  • History

• I don't do negative things.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Things
  • Negative

• Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Way
  • Tools
  • Depend

• In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • You
  • Everything
  • Without

• I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Know

• The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Business
  • Opportunity
  • Study

• The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Air
  • Ability
  • Consumers

• As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Children
  • Mother

• There doesn't seem to be a religion in 'Game of Thrones' that's totally peaceful... we haven't seen any Buddhists.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Game
  • Religion
  • Peaceful

• Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Opportunity
  • Nothing
  • More

• I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Real
  • Culture
  • Thought

• I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Song
  • Never
  • Same

• The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • History

• When I'm not on the road, I try to intake about 300 grams of protein a day, which is a lot. I got really into how your body absorbs it and how you feel and how crazy it is when you intake that much food and actually feel better, your brain works better, and you actually lose weight even though you're eating more. It's so methodical.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Food
  • Crazy
  • Brain

• I'm definitely a city kid.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • City

• So many actors wear wigs nowadays. Besides, if someone is hiring me because of how I wear my hair, I don't want to work with them anyway.

  

  Maria Bello
  • Work
  • Hair

• If I've got a confidence problem, it's that my self-esteem is entirely too high.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • High
  • Confidence

• Spreading manure is a great way of bringing yourself down to earth.

  

  Steven Ford
  • Earth
  • Bringing
  • Manure

• Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows without ambitious pains; And rains down life until the basin spills, And mounts more dizzy high the more it rains As though to choose whatever shape it wills.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Rain

• We want a fireworks theory of evolution. The last two thousand million years are slow evolution: they are the smoke and ashes of bright but very rapid fireworks.

  

  Georges Lemaitre
  • Evolution
  • Theory
  • Fireworks

• Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

  

  William James
  • World
  • Real
  • Done

• Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Opinion
  • Feelings
  • Instinct