There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true; it not only deserved no faith, but… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated, when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a fallacy which, when… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and,… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are… — Richard Whately Copy Share
Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the… — Richard Whately Copy Share
Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. — Richard Whately Copy Share
Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out… — Richard Whately Copy Share
Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give us the… — Richard Whately Copy Share
Reason can no more influence the will, and operate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can enable him… — Richard Whately Copy Share
Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom… — Richard Whately Copy Share
Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived. — Richard Whately Copy Share
Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves. — Richard Whately Copy Share
Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary. — Richard Whately Copy Share
Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance. — Richard Whately Copy Share
He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge. — Richard Whately Copy Share
