Quote

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

Richard Whately

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Richard Whately
Age: 76 †
Born: 1787
Born: February 1
Died: 1863
Died: October 8
Economist
Philosopher
Priest
Theologian
London
England
Sheep
Driven
Easily
Single
Men
Like
Flock
Flocks

More quotes by Richard Whately

Image
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.
Richard Whately
Image
There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.
Richard Whately
Image
Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.
Richard Whately
Image
Better too much form than too little.
Richard Whately
Image
Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth but either should set us upon testing ourselves.
Richard Whately
Image
All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.
Richard Whately
Image
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
Richard Whately
Image
No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar.
Richard Whately
Image
Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.
Richard Whately
Image
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.
Richard Whately
Image
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.
Richard Whately
Image
The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.
Richard Whately
Image
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.
Richard Whately
Image
Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.
Richard Whately
Image
It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.
Richard Whately
Image
As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.
Richard Whately
Image
When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.
Richard Whately
Image
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.
Richard Whately
Image
Happiness is no laughing matter.
Richard Whately
Image
The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.
Richard Whately