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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

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 Huxley
Life, Success, Education
Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.120, Library of Alexandria

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.

Thomas Huxley
Life, Success, Children

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

Thomas Huxley
Life, Player, Games
'Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews' (1870) 'A Liberal Education'

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas Huxley
Life, Business, Knowledge
"Technical Education" (1877)

And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Thomas Huxley
Inspirational, Life, Patience
"Critiques and Addresses".

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

Thomas Huxley
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.359, University of Georgia Press

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

Thomas Huxley
Life, Success, Failure
Thomas H. Huxley (1900). “A Library of Universal Literature in Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations”

For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

Thomas Huxley
Life, Eye, Men
Thomas Henry Huxley (2008). “A Scientific Education”, p.37, Lulu.com

Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.

Thomas Huxley
Life, Opposites, Matter
Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

Thomas Huxley
Life, Success, Trust
Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.

Thomas Huxley
Life, Science, Equilibrium
Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.73

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, Mother, Method
Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission.

Thomas Huxley
Life, Courage, Pain
Thomas Henry Huxley (1870). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.90, Adam, Stevenson

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