Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes

• The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Suffering, Wisdom

  Tags in Great, Read, Thing, Mankind, Medicine, Crime

• The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best, Simply, Make, Men

• The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fiction, Time, Sense, Men

• Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Wise

  Tags in Fool, Consequences, Men

• Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Good, Make, Consequences, Mind

• Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Right, Learn, True, Order

• Freedom and order are not incompatible… truth is strength… free discussion is the very life of truth.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Life, Truth

  Tags in Freedom, Strength, Order

• The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Modern, Factory, Looked

• Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Common Sense, Observation, School, Logic

• All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Run, Sense, Common

• Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Side, School, Things, Literature

• In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Beyond, Scientific, Fact, Refuse

• The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Wise

  Tags in World, Just

• I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Enjoy, Good, Every, Man, Mankind

• The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Spread, Better, More, Mankind

• If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature’s part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Nature, Work

  Tags in Better, Kind, Head, Brain, Man

• The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Learned, School, Faith, Man

• The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Wise

  Tags in Honest, True, Man

• The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rest, Hold, Enough, Man

• It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Certain, Happy, Most, Thing, Making

Thomas Henry Huxley (76)

Birth:	4th May, 1825
Death:	29th June, 1895
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Biologist

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