Rightly Quotes

405 Rightly quotes by 316 unique authors

Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed… — John Maynard Keynes
It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written with… — James Elroy Flecker
What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to… — Saint Augustine
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and… — Seneca the Younger
And remember, that is the criterion. If a person can enjoy and celebrate his death, that shows he has lived rightly; there is no other… — Rajneesh
Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who… — Saint Augustine
As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity:… — Thomas Paine
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time. — Elbert Hubbard
How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we've come by ... material honestly, through our own personal experience or imagination,… — Peter Selgin
Biblical Theology...is that part of Exegetical Theology which deals with the revelation of God in its historic continuity...Biblical Theology, rightly defined, is nothing else than… — Geerhardus Vos
The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions. — George Washington
To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which… — Vannevar Bush
It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position — Vladimir Kramnik
I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from… — Alfred North Whitehead
Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the… — Thomas Carlyle
Ah, did we but rightly understand what the demerit of sin is, we would rather admire the bounty of God than complain of the straithandedness… — John Flavel
To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God. — John Bunyan
If you would train your children rightly, train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would. — J C Ryle
But I think that Australians have a sort of independence, and I think that, rightly or wrongly, they tend to make their own decisions as… — Joan Sutherland
A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches… — Gautama Buddha

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