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Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.
— Richard Whately
Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.
— Richard Whately
Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.
— Richard Whately
Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.
— Richard Whately
Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.
— Richard Whately
That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.
— Richard Whately
There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.
— Richard Whately
Good manners are a part of good morals.
— Richard Whately
A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change.
— Richard Whately
It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.
— Richard Whately
The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.
— Richard Whately
The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind ...
— Richard Whately
The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.
— Richard Whately
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
— Richard Whately
To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.
— Richard Whately
Happiness is no laughing matter.
— Richard Whately
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
— Richard Whately
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
— Richard Whately
Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on.
— Richard Whately
Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.
— Richard Whately
Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him.
— Richard Whately
To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.
— Richard Whately
Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender consciencemore desirous of security than of safety. — Richard Whately
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
— Richard Whately
It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.
— Richard Whately
Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.
— Richard Whately
One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.
— Richard Whately
The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.
— Richard Whately
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
— Richard Whately
Knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.
— Richard Whately
Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.
— Richard Whately
A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.
— Richard Whately
The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.
— Richard Whately
Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.
— Richard Whately
Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
— Richard Whately
All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.
— Richard Whately
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
— Richard Whately
Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving.
— Richard Whately
He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.
— Richard Whately
Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.
— Richard Whately
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
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.
— Richard Whately
Misgive that you may not mistake.
— Richard Whately
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.
— Richard Whately
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
— Richard Whately
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
— Richard Whately
He who is unaware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.
— Richard Whately
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
— Richard Whately
The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.
— Richard Whately
We may print, but not stereotype, our opinions.
— Richard Whately
Better too much form than too little.
— Richard Whately
Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived.
— Richard Whately
As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.
— Richard Whately
Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.
— Richard Whately
When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.
— Richard Whately
All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.
— Richard Whately
Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.
— Richard Whately
The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.
— Richard Whately
Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.
— Richard Whately
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
— Richard Whately
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
— Richard Whately
Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.
— Richard Whately
Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
— Richard Whately
