Tryon Edwards Quotes & Quotations

Tryon Edwards Quotes

» Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

» Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both.

» To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.

» Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

» Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

» Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

» Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

» Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.

» Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

» What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

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