The great aim of education is not knowledge but ac... -Herbert Spencer

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer , Philosopher
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Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeav...
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools....
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded....
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality....
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action....
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit....
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society....
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom....
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one....
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman....

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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven....
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