No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

- Herbert Spencer

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

- Herbert Spencer

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

- Herbert Spencer

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

- Herbert Spencer

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

- Herbert Spencer

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

- Herbert Spencer

This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or the…

- Herbert Spencer

Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.

- Herbert Spencer

The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the…

- Herbert Spencer