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
english-writer few men side truth
All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.
men decision mind
Men first make up their minds (and the smaller the mind the sooner made up), and then seek for the reasons; and if they chance to stumble upon a good reason, of course they do not reject it. But though they are right, they are only right by chance.
men opposites anarchy
When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.
men safety quiet
Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety.
party men causes
Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.
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.
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.
men self glasses
Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.
men divine-wisdom interesting
Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived, and to us the most interesting specimen of Divine wisdom that we have any knowledge of.
honesty men policy
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
children men giving
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
men sheep driven
Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
mean men wages
When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.