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My pet aphorism suffer fools gladly should be the guide of the Assistant Secretary, who, during the fortnight of his activity, has more little vanities and rivalries to smooth over and conciliate than other people meet with in a lifetime. Now you do not suffer fools gladly; on the contrary, you gladly make fools suffer. I do not say you are wrong; No tu quoque'; but that is where the danger of the explosion lies'; not in regard to the larger business of the Association.
-Thomas Henry Huxley, May 22, 1889
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Action(s)
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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Common Sense
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Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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Consequences
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Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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Danger
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If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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Decisions
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Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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Duty
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We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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Education
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The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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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.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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Emotions
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The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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Facts
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Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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Growth
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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.
-Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley
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Integrity
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There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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Knowledge
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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Learning
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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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Mathematics
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Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peas cods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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Morals
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The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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Necessity
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Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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Opinion
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There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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Patience
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It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is only the people who have to stop to be washed and made clean, who must necessarily lose the race. And I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance
-Thomas Henry Huxley, On Medical Education, Collected Essays vol. 3, 1870
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Persistence
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Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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Politics
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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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Books by and about Thomas Henry Huxley