Richard Whately quotes - page 2

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)
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?' View quote
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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. View quote
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In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us. View quote
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Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say. View quote
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil. View quote
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A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change. View quote
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Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth but either should set us upon testing ourselves. View quote
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The word knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things truth, proof, and conviction. View quote
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Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons of infinite worth may be derived. View quote
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