"The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three……" — Richard Whately
"The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction."
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Richard Whately
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47 Quotes by Richard Whately
Richard Whately has 47 quotes on this site.
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He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
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To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
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Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners…
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In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are…
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The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the…
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To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange…
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Happiness is no laughing matter.
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It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of…
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Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral…
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It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on…
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More Conviction Quotes
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience,…
— Franklin P. Adams
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
— William Barclay
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I have the courage of my convictions.
— Brigitte Bardot
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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated…
— Saint Basil
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Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the…
— Felix Adler
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I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind…
— Bono
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When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do…
— Barbara Boxer
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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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