Richard Whately
Richard Whately
Richard Whatelywas an English rhetorician, logician, economist, academic and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. He was a leading Broad Churchman, a prolific and combative author over a wide range of topics, a flamboyant character, and one of the first reviewers to recognise the talents of Jane Austen...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 February 1787
Richard Whately quotes about
truth taken applause
Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.
men law suffering
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.
men mind never-change
A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change.
inspirational past perception
It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is unobstructive: without the latter it is deceptive.
party men causes
Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.
party errors support
The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.
discovery persecution could-have-been
Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.
skills two evil
Concerning the utility of Rhetoric, it is to be observed that it divides itself into two; first, whether Oratorical skill be, on the whole, a public benefit, or evil; and secondly, whether any artificial system of Rules is conducive to the attainment of that skill.
complaining use logic
No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar..
art mind analysis
As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted; as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be derived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions.
faith flower fruit
As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.
hands action admiration
The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.
persecution
Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.
science curiosity fields
To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.