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
book passion imagination
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.
food tables dinner
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.
order erring imperfect
To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.
men sheep driven
Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
sacrifice being-true expediency
Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.
fall errors facts
The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.
wise dog moon
When any person of really eminent virtue becomes the object of envy, the clamor and abuse by which he is assailed is but the sign and accompaniment of his success in doing service to the public. And if he is a truly wise man, he will take no more notice of it than the moon does of the howling of the dogs. Her only answer to them is to shine on.
envy feelings looks
Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.
medicine knowing wholesomeness
Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.
religious strong political
A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.
wall support decay
All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.
horse may driving
Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving.
spiritual celibacy advantage
Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.
bible sight use
As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its deficiencies.