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Richard Whately quotes: Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.

Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.

Richard Whately quotes: Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

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

Richard Whately quotes: 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.

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

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

Richard Whately quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.

Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.

Richard Whately quotes: 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.

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 quotes: There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

Richard Whately quotes: Good manners are a part of good morals.

Good manners are a part of good morals.

Richard Whately quotes: A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change.

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

Richard Whately quotes: It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.

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

Richard Whately quotes: He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.

He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.

Richard Whately quotes: 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.

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

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

Richard Whately quotes: The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.

The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.

Richard Whately quotes: Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

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

Richard Whately quotes: To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

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 quotes: Happiness is no laughing matter.

Happiness is no laughing matter.

Richard Whately quotes: Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

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

Richard Whately quotes: To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

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

Richard Whately quotes: 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.

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

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

Richard Whately quotes: 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.

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

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

Richard Whately quotes: Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender consciencemore desirous of security than of safety.

Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience
more desirous of security than of safety.

Richard Whately quotes: He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Richard Whately quotes: It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.

It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.

Richard Whately quotes: Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.

Richard Whately quotes: Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.

Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.

Richard Whately quotes: 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.

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 quotes: The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

Richard Whately quotes: Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

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

Richard Whately quotes: The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.

The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.

Richard Whately quotes: Knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.

Knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.

Richard Whately quotes: Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

Richard Whately quotes: A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.

A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.

Richard Whately quotes: The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

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

Richard Whately quotes: Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.

Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.

Richard Whately quotes: Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Richard Whately quotes: All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

Richard Whately quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

Richard Whately quotes: Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

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

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

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

Richard Whately quotes: 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.

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 quotes: A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.

A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.

Richard Whately quotes: All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

Richard Whately quotes: Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.

Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.

Richard Whately quotes: Misgive that you may not mistake.

Misgive that you may not mistake.

Richard Whately quotes: In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

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

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

Richard Whately quotes: Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

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

Richard Whately quotes: He who is unaware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.

He who is unaware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.

Richard Whately quotes: It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

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

Richard Whately quotes: 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.

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 quotes: We may print, but not stereotype, our opinions.

We may print, but not stereotype, our opinions.

Richard Whately quotes: Better too much form than too little.

Better too much form than too little.

Richard Whately quotes: Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived.

Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived.

Richard Whately quotes: It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

Richard Whately quotes: As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

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

Richard Whately quotes: Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.

Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.

Richard Whately quotes: When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.

When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.

Richard Whately quotes: All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

Richard Whately quotes: Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.

Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.

Richard Whately quotes: The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Richard Whately quotes: Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

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

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

Richard Whately quotes: There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Richard Whately quotes: Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Richard Whately quotes: Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

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 quotes: Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

Richard Whately quotes: Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.

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