Quote

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

William Ralph Inge

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Ralph Inge
Men
Philosophy
Teach
Praising
Poor
Philosophies
Learn
Constructed
Science
Adopt
Doe
Scientific
Must
Praise
Much
Follow

More quotes by William Ralph Inge

Image
It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.
William Ralph Inge
Image
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
William Ralph Inge
Image
I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
William Ralph Inge
Image
God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel its poverty by how little.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.
William Ralph Inge