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If everyone would record his experiments and observations, science would be much benefited.
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Curiosity is the desire of knowing what is unknown, for that reason alone.
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"A little learning" is then only (and then always) "a dangerous thing," when we are not aware of its littleness.
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Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.
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It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples that there is nothing which may not be thus represented. He will hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke.
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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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The dangers of knowledge are not to be compared with the dangers of ignorance. Man is more likely to miss his way in darkness than in twilight; in twilight than in full sun.
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The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches.
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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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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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The diligence, candour, and judgment requisite to make a full use of this discoveries of others, are perhaps as rare, and quite as useful, as originality. The flint and steel would be of little use without the tinder and match.
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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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Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.
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Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.
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The analytical method is the best to introduce knowledge, the synthetical to perfect and retain it.
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Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the character without our being conscious of any.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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Born:
February 1, 1787
Died:
October 8, 1863
(aged 76)
Bio:
Richard Whately was an English rhetorician, logician, economist, and theologian who also served as the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin.
Known for:
Elements of logic (1826)
Easy lessons on reasoning (1845)
Paley's Moral Philosophy, With Annotations
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