Richard Whately Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“Happiness is no laughing matter.”

“He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.”

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

“All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.”

“To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.”

“As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'”

“It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.”

“Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.”

“In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.”