Richard Whately Quotes & Quotations

Richard Whately Quotes

» Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

» Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.

» Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

» Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

» Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

» He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

» A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.

» In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

» Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

» To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.''

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