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
faith flower fruit
As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.
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.
effort exempt failures
He is only exempt from failures who makes no effort
prudent circumstances remarkable
It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.
memories parent curiosity
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
wise wisdom rebuilding
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
philosophy duty
knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.
circles magic stories
Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows not where to stop. It is like one of those fiends in old stories which any one could raise, but which, when raised, could never be kept within the magic circle.
regret years snow
It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.
wish would-be pleasure
If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.
safe suspects self-examination
Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.
sight firsts absence
Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.
wise ignorance men
One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.
wish sides sincerely
It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.