Richard Whately Quotes
Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
Whately, Richard. Thoughts and Apophthegms from the Writings of Archbishop Whately. Lindsay & Blakiston, 1856.
He had been asked how to solve the housing problem of the Great Recession. Rarely do major public figures admit ignorance on a major issue. Even if they have no specific solutions, they provide general platitudes and further describe the solution. If they are politicians, they then tend to blame the opposition for the existence of the problem.
Richard Whately was an English academic, rhetorician, logician, philosopher, economist, and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. He was a leading Broad Churchman, a prolific and combative author over a wide range of topics, a flamboyant character, and one of the first reviewers to recognise the talents of Jane Austen.
