34 ordspråk av Richard Whately

Richard Whately

Richard Whately föddes den 1 februar 1787 och dog den 8 oktober 1863 - English archbishop
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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?''

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

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

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

He is only exempt from failures who makes no effort

"Honesty is the best policy," but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man

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

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man

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

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

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons of infinite worth may be derived

Happiness is no laughing matter

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

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

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