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Top 100 Richard Whately Quotes (2024 Update)

Richard Whately Quote: “Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”
Richard Whately Quote: “A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.”
Richard Whately Quote: “A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s.”
Richard Whately Quote: “Good manners are a part of good morals.”
Richard Whately Quote: “Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.”
Richard Whately Quote: “A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change.”
Richard Whately Quote: “As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.”
Richard Whately Quote: “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 Quote: “The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind...”
Richard Whately Quote: “To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.”
Richard Whately Quote: “A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.”
Richard Whately Quote: “It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.”
Richard Whately Quote: “Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.”
Richard Whately Quote: “Better too much form than too little.”
Richard Whately Quote: “Happiness is no laughing matter.”
Richard Whately Quote: “When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.”
Richard Whately Quote: “Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.”
Richard Whately Quote: “He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.”
Richard Whately Quote: “Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.”
Richard Whately Quote: “It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.”
Richard Whately Quote: “The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.”
Richard Whately Quote: “Party spirit enlists a man’s virtues in the cause of his vices.”
Richard Whately Quote: “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 Quote: “To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.”
Richard Whately Quote: “Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.”
Richard Whately Quote: “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 Quote: “Trust, therefore, for the overcoming of a difficulty, not to long-continued study after you have once become bewildered, but to repeated trials at intervals.”
Richard Whately Quote: “There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.”
Richard Whately Quote: “The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.”
Richard Whately Quote: “No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar...”
Richard Whately Quote: “Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.”
Richard Whately Quote: “Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.”
Richard Whately Quote: “As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not encumber the student with any exercise of judgment.”
Richard Whately Quote: “Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.”
Richard Whately Quote: “Misgive that you may not mistake.”
Richard Whately Quote: “Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.”
Richard Whately Quote: “He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.”
Richard Whately Quote: “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 Quote: “The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.”
Richard Whately Quote: “Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.”
Richard Whately Quote: “The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.”
Richard Whately Quote: “Some persons resemble certain trees, such as the nut, which flowers in February and ripens its fruit in September; or the juniper and the arbutus; which take a whole year or more to perfect their fruit; and others, the cherry, which takes between two an three months.”
Richard Whately Quote: “The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.”
Richard Whately Quote: “As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted; as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be derived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions.”
Richard Whately Quote: “It is folly to shiver over last year’s snow.”
Richard Whately Quote: “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 Quote: “Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.”
Richard Whately Quote: “As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness of head nor a very elevated tone of morality, are perpetually haunted by suspicions of everybody and everything.”
Richard Whately Quote: “Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.”
Richard Whately Quote: “Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.”
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