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."
- Richard Whately
(Related: Danger, Judgment, Order, Traditions)
"Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one."
- Richard Whately
(Related: Men, Sheep)
"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
(Related: Manners, Perfection, Thinking)
"Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man."
- Richard Whately
(Related: Influence, Man, Manners)
"There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil."
- Richard Whately
(Related: Truth, Soul, Error, Evil)
"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
(Related: Man)
"To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air."
- Richard Whately
(Related: Passion)
"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
(Related: Love, Truth, People, Light)
"All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth."
- Richard Whately
(Related: Men, Truth)
"Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it."
- Richard Whately
(Related: Day, Will)
"It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary."
- Richard Whately
(Related: Neglect)
"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
(Related: Men, God)
"It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do."
- Richard Whately
(Related: Men, Folly, May)
"Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man."
- Richard Whately
(Related: Policy, Honesty, Man, Maxim)
"He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts."
- Richard Whately
"Happiness is no laughing matter."
- Richard Whately
(Related: Happiness)
"Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth."
- Richard Whately
(Related: Truth, Wishes)
"Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory."
- Richard Whately
(Related: Attention, Curiosity, Memory)
"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
(Related: Truth, Difference, End, May)
"A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's."
- Richard Whately
(Related: Man)
"A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune."
- Richard Whately
(Related: Children, Fortune, Giving, Habits, Man)
"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
(Related: Judgment, Law)