Richard Whately Quotes

Best Quotes by Richard Whately (Top 10)

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
Richard Whately
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
Richard Whately
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
Richard Whately
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
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Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
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He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
Richard Whately
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Richard Whately
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.
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Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.
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Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
Richard Whately

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
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In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.
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Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
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It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe to God for any blessing, is, that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.
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Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.
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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.
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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?'
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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
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