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As one may bring himself to be...

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'

Richard Whately 148 quotes

To teach one who has no curios...

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

He only is exempt from failure...

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

Honesty is the best policy; bu...

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

To know your ruling passion, e...

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

A fanatic, either, religious o...

A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

Party spirit enlists a man's v...

Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

The tendency of party spirit h...

The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

Galileo probably would have es...

Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

Persecution is not wrong becau...

Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

To follow imperfect, uncertain...

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

To be always thinking about yo...

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

In our judgment of human trans...

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

The word of knowledge, strictl...

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

Happiness is no laughing matte...

Happiness is no laughing matter.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

It is an awful, an appalling t...

It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

Not in books only, nor yet in ...

Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons of infinite worth may be derived.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

It is one thing to wish to hav...

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

As a science, logic institutes...

As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted; as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be derived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

The love of admiration leads t...

The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.

Richard Whately 148 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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