Richard Whately Quotes

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• To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

  Richard Whately

  Passion, Air, Words Of Wisdom

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• Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

  Richard Whately

  Memories, Parent, Curiosity

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.491

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• It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

  Richard Whately

  Truth, Wish, Sides

  Richard Whately (1854). “Essays (second Series) on Some of the Difficulties in the Writings of the Apostle Paul: And in Other Parts of the New Testament”, p.18

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• Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

  Richard Whately

  Good Morning, Good Day, Up Early

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• A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

  Richard Whately

  Selfish, Helping Others, Men

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• The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.

  Richard Whately

  Gratitude, Appreciate, Mind

  Richard Whately (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Dr. Whately”, p.43

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• Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

  Richard Whately

  Men, Influence, Manners

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• Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

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  Men, Sheep, Driven

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.251

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• To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

  Richard Whately

  Science, Curiosity, Ploughing

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.491

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• Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

  Richard Whately

  Food, Tables, Dinner

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• It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Rebuilding

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.71

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• As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

  Richard Whately

  Faith, Flower, Fruit

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• A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change.

  Richard Whately

  Change, Men, Mind

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• He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

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  Failure, Effort

  Richard Whately (1839). “Essays on Some of the Dangers to Christian Faith”, p.335

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• As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its deficiencies.

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  Bible, Sight, Use

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.49

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• A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

  Richard Whately

  Children, Men, Giving

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• It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.

  Richard Whately

  Regret, Years, Snow

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• If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.

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  Wish, Would Be, Pleasure

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.297

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• In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

  Richard Whately

  Law, Optics, Judgment

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• Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.

  Richard Whately

  Persecution

  Richard Whately (1856). “Essays [third Series] on the Errors of Romanism Having Their Origin in Human Nature”, p.144

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• The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

  Richard Whately

  Style, Firsts, Rhetoric

  Richard Whately (1858). “Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion : with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution”, p.300

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• Good manners are a part of good morals.

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  Good Man, Moral, Manners

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.244

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• Men first make up their minds (and the smaller the mind the sooner made up), and then seek for the reasons; and if they chance to stumble upon a good reason, of course they do not reject it. But though they are right, they are only right by chance.

  Richard Whately

  Men, Decision, Mind

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.22

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• Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

  Richard Whately

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  'Apophthegms' p. 219

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• Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

  Richard Whately

  Light, Air, Dry

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.25

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