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Quote by Herbert Spencer
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. - Herbert

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. – Herbert Spencer

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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society. – Herbert Spencer

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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. – Herbert Spencer

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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. – Herbert Spencer

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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. – C. S. Lewis

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To accuse others for ones own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that ones education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that ones education is complete. – Epictetus

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The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. – John Sterling

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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. – Gregory Bateson

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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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