Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes on Wisdom
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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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Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
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'I do not advocate burning your ship to get rid of the cockroaches'.
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'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]
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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.