5 Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes on Wisdom

Thomas Henry Huxley quotes on wisdom

8. Let us have 'sweet girl graduates' by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the 'golden hair' will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.

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

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32. 'I do not advocate burning your ship to get rid of the cockroaches'.

45. 'Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once'. One of a series of exchanges when Owen repeated his claims about the Gorilla brain in a Royal Institution lecture. [Athenaeum 13 April 1861 p.498; Browne vol 2 p.159]

50. The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.

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