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Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
Richard Whately
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Richard Whately
Age: 76 †
Born: 1787
Born: February 1
Died: 1863
Died: October 8
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Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
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As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.
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Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.
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Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated, when presented to us in a concentrated form but a fallacy which, when stated barely in a few sentences, would not deceive a child, may deceive half the world, if diluted in a quarto volume.
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He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.
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It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.
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Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.
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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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When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.
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It is also important to guard against mistaking for good-nature what is properly good-humor,--a cheerful flow of spirits and easy temper not readily annoyed, which is compatible with great selfishness.
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Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all.
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Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.
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There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.
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Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.
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The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.
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It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
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If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.
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