William Warburton Quotes

“Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them.”

Mind Passion Fire Heat Fanaticism Purifying Rectify

Book:The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author

Source: The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author

“High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.”

Proud Birth Be Proud Boast Ancestry

Author:William Warburton

“The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from his own principles.”

Knows Wells Shows Enemy Principles Advantage Argument Arguing Discussion Allowing Premises

Book:The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated

Source: The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated

“Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one can heartily deceive numbers who is not first of all deceived himself.”

Firsts Interest Numbers Fire Enthusiasm Mutual Followers Deceiving Deceived Kindles Adventurer Mutual Interest

Book:The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author

Source: The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author

“A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.”

Lying Wings Legs Wide

Author:William Warburton

“Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or so immediately our concern, as those which let us into the knowledge of our own nature. Others may exercise the understanding or amuse the imagination; but these only can improve the heart and form the human mind to wisdom.”

World Mind Humans Heart May Use Form Understanding Imagination Exercise Concern Importance Entertainment Human Mind Self-examination

Author:William Warburton

“The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.”

Firsts Soul Taught Immortal Testimony Antiquity

Author:William Warburton

“Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.”

Knows Mind Passion Common Respect Surprise Arise Admiration Enthusiastic Novelty Inseparable Moralist

Author:William Warburton

“Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.”

Men Orthodox Another Man Orthodoxy Doxies

Author:William Warburton

“Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.”

Mind Imagination Judgment Enthusiasm Temper

Author:William Warburton

“Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.”

Reason Truth Tests Ridicule

Author:William Warburton

“Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.”

Ancient Sentences Manners Isolated Regulation Delighted Ancient Wisdom

Book:The Works: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author

Source: The Works: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author

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