Richard Whately was an English logician and theological writer who also served as Anglican Archbishop of Dublin.
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“All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.”
Richard Whately
“He is only exempt from failures who makes no effort”
“It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do”
“Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of 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”
“Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.”
“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”
“"Honesty is the best policy," but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man”
“There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.”