Quote #18

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

Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

More from Thomas Henry Huxley

  1. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year, has its application to nations; and it is futile…
  2. Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.
  3. The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.
  4. Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, wh…
  5. In an ideal University, the force of living example should fire the student with a noble ambition to emulate the learning of learned men, a…
  6. The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
  7. That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.
  8. If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

All Thomas Henry Huxley quotes