“Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.” — Richard Whately, Thoughts and Apophthegms
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“Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.” — Richard Whately, Thoughts and Apophthegms
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“Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.” — Richard Whately, Thoughts and Apophthegms
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“Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved, and his reasonings refuted.” — Richard Whately, Introductory Lectures on Political-Economy
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“Never is the mind less fitted for self-examination, than when most occupied in detecting the faults of others.” — Richard Whately, Thoughts and Apophthegms
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“It is too often forgotten, that better does not necessarily imply “good.”” — Richard Whately, “Thoughts and Apophthegms from the Writings of Archbishop Whately
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“A fool can ask more questions than a wise man can answer; but a wise man cannot ask more questions than he will find a fool ready to answer.” — Richard Whately, “Thoughts and Apophthegms from the Writings of Archbishop Whately
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“He that is not aware of his ignorance, will be only misled by his knowledge.” — Richard Whately, Thoughts and Apophthegms from the Writings of Archbishop Whately
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