Huxley

Famous quotes containing the word huxley:

    Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    Most lovers ... picture to themselves, in their mistresses, a secret reality, beyond and different from what they see every day. They are in love with somebody else—their own invention. And sometimes there is a secret reality; and sometimes reality and appearance are the same. The discovery, in either case, is likely to cause a shock.
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    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, its probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)