Richard Whately Quotes

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

  Richard Whately

  Topics in Memory

  Tags in Attention, Parent

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

  Richard Whately

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Realism
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  He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

  Richard Whately

  Topics in Effort, Failure

  Tags in Makes, Only

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

  Richard Whately

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Selfish, Neighbour, Pursuing

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

  Richard Whately

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Better, Giving

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

  Richard Whately

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Men, Wish

• As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, ‘What is truth?’

  Richard Whately

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Believe, End

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

  Richard Whately

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Everyone, Wishes

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human, Law, Around

• It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.

  Richard Whately

  Topics in God

  Tags in Men, True

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

  Richard Whately

  Topics in Influence

  Tags in Greatest, Ever

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

  Richard Whately

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Day, Morning, Lose

• Happiness is no laughing matter.

  Richard Whately

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness, Matter

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

  Richard Whately

  Topics in Honesty

  Tags in Best

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

  Richard Whately

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men, Expect

• 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

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Yourself, Thinking

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

  Richard Whately

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Evil, Sour

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Another, Order, Follow

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

  Richard Whately

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Passion, Air, Ruling

• 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

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Best, Give

Richard Whately (24)

Birth:	1st February, 1787
Death:	8th October, 1863
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Economist, Logician, Theologian

About

Richard Whately was an English rhetorician, logician, economist, and theologian who also served as the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin.

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