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He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.
Richard Whately
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Richard Whately
Age: 76 †
Born: 1787
Born: February 1
Died: 1863
Died: October 8
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As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be derived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions.
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Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving.
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Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
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He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.
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The heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true it not only deserved no faith, but it demanded none. The very pretension to truth, the very demand of faith, were characteristic distinctions of Christianity.
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Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.
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Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises and they always poke the fire from the top.
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In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.
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Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.
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All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.
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It is quite possible, and not uncommon, to read most laboriously, even so as to get by heart the words of a book, without really studying it at all,--that is, without employing the thoughts on the subject.
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Better too much form than too little.
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One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.
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Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected.
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The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
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He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
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Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.
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To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
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A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
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If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.
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