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
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.
children book reading
As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without contributing in some degree, though the book itself be afterwards totally forgotten, to form the character.
wall support decay
All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.
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.
persecution
Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.
men extravagance expenses
That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.
science curiosity fields
To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.
men thinking giving
The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.
men may folly
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
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.
sight firsts absence
Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.
anger grieving done
Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him.