Richard Whately
13 quotes.
Quotes by Richard Whately
- A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
- A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.
- All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.
- Cultivate not only the cornfields of your mind, but the pleasure-grounds also.
- Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.
- Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not every one that sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.
- He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
- He that is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.
- He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.
- Honesty is the best policy; but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man.
- The dangers of knowledge are not to be compared with the dangers of ignorance. Man is more likely to miss his way in darkness than in twilight; in twilight than in full sun.
- The larger the income, the harder it is to live within it.
- The man who is in a hurry to see the full effects of his own tillage must cultivate annuals, and not forest trees.