Richard Whately - Men Quotes

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It is a folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

Richard Whately

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men dive for them because they fetch a high price.

Richard Whately

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.

Richard Whately

Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.

Richard Whately

Men first make up their minds (and the smaller the mind the sooner made up), and then seek for the reasons; and if they chance to stumble upon a good reason, of course they do not reject it. But though they are right, they are only right by chance.

Richard Whately