Benjamin Whichcote
Benjamin Whichcote
Benjamin Whichcotewas a British Establishment and Puritan divine, Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and leader of the Cambridge Platonists...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Benjamin Whichcote quotes about
opportunity be-good known
None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
passion men democracy
The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
believe men belief
Believe things, rather than man.
dangerous
Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
wise wisdom men
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
wisdom conceited errors
He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
heaven religion doe
Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
reason acknowledge
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
prayer real done
All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours.
soul virtue natural
Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
trust trust-nobody
He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
temptation deeds wonder
Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we've resisted, Our places are assigned.
eye men cases
If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour's eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour's case.
life wish ends
Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.