Herbert Spencer

Quote link.: "Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity."
Quote link.: "Education has for its object the formation of character."
Quote link. Other quotes about: words: "How often misused words generate misleading thoughts."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people men man making: "If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making"
Quote link.: "Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations."
Quote link.: "Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect."
Quote link. Other quotes about: education: "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world men: "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."