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Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
Thomas Huxley
Money
Science
Books
Literature
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
Thomas Huxley
Truth
Common sense
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
Thomas Huxley
Cleverness
Patience
Tenacity
Weight
Worth
Misery is a match that never goes out.
Thomas Huxley
Misery
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
Thomas Huxley
Importance
Right
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 Huxley
Life
People
May
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
Thomas Huxley
End
Fate
Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
Thomas Huxley
Order
Right
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Thomas Huxley
Men
Consequences
Fools
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
Thomas Huxley
Act
Consequences
Hesitation
Mind
World
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
Thomas Huxley
Business
Aspirations
Fact
Facts
My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
Thomas Huxley
Experience
Right
World
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
Thomas Huxley
Life
Science
Mother
Delusion
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
Thomas Huxley
Freedom
Slavery
Will
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
Thomas Huxley
Beliefs