"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."
"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence."
"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, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly."
"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."
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?"
"There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life."
"There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite."
"The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses."
"Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely."
Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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