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.
selfish helping-others men
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
good-morning good-day up-early
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
wise wisdom rebuilding
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
truth believe
There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.
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.
argument conviction discussion
He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.
regret years snow
It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.
twilight people tone
As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness of head nor a very elevated tone of morality, are perpetually haunted by suspicions of everybody and everything.