Richard Whately Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

  Richard Whately

  Love, Communication, Dark

• A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

  Richard Whately

  Children, Men, Giving

• Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give us the extraordinary events and omit just what we want,--the every-day life of each particular time and country.

  Richard Whately

  Country, Rocks, History

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.194

• Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.

  Richard Whately

  Men, Glasses, Self

• The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

  Richard Whately

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1861). “Bacon's Essays”, p.137

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