Herbert Spencer Quotes

The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.

Herbert Spencer

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• The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Creation
  • Forests
  • Acorn

• 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

• 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

• I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Attention

• I connect with people on a daily basis.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Daily
  • Connect

• People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • People
  • Person
  • Certain

• Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of all matters sportif.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Better
  • Two
  • Matters

• Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Love
  • Lucky
  • Love Is

• In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • People
  • Why
  • Age

• Kids and adults are treated differently on sets. Being a kid, you can get away with anything, and it looks cute. But as an adult, it's a whole new journey.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Kids
  • Journey
  • Kid

• I have always been a movie buff and had no interest in any games and sports. I do not even watch cricket, which is one of the favourite games of most of my friends. However, I have become a wrestling fan after 'Dangal.'

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Friends
  • Movie
  • Sports

• For me... you know, the most I've paid for a haircut was in Australia. Usually I go to a black barber or a Latino barber. I can't just go into Supercuts.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Know
  • Paid
  • Haircut

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

  

  Van Morrison
  • Song
  • Never
  • Same

• We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries…I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Country
  • May
  • Free

• With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it to being dipped in bronze. Each victory added another coat.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Success
  • Friend
  • Victory

• And I sing and sing of awful thingsThe pleasure that my sadness brings.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes

• He wondered if that was what the moment of death was about, the noise of the world and then ease away from it.

  

  Colum McCann
  • World
  • Death

• It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Real
  • Improvement

• The disappearance of nations would impoverish us no less than if all peoples were made alike, with one character, one face. Nations are the wealth of mankind, they are its generalized personalities: the smallest of them has its own particular colors, and embodies a particular facet of God's design.

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • God
  • Character
  • Design

• I do care about the consequences of being negative toward people who are powerful. But I'm more afraid of not being taken seriously as a critic - by editors, by readers.

  

  Dan Chiasson
  • People
  • Consequences
  • Seriously

• The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Great
  • Diversity
  • Filmmaking

• Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • Children
  • Joy

• Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] and I have spoken a lot, and we said all the right things, in my opinion, about creating an atmosphere of trust and friendship between our nations and peoples.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Opinion
  • Atmosphere
  • Abe

• The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Opinion
  • Numbers
  • Gains