William Warburton Quotes

• Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

  William Warburton

  Men, Doxies, Orthodoxy

  To Lord Sandwich, in Priestley 'Memoirs' (1807) vol. 1, p. 372

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

  William Warburton

  Lying, Wings, Legs

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• 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.

  William Warburton

  Proud, Ancestry, Birth

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• El fanatismo es un fuego que calienta la mente, pero calienta sin purificar. Estimula y fermenta todas las pasiones; pero no rectifica ninguna de ellas.

  William Warburton

  Passion, Fire, Mind

  William Warburton, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd (1811). “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”, p.135

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• 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.

  William Warburton

  Heart, Exercise, Imagination

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• 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.

  William Warburton

  Enemy, Principles, Arguing

  William Warburton (1837). “The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated”, p.684

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• 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.

  William Warburton

  Fire, Numbers, Mutual Interest

  William Warburton, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd (1811). “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”, p.136

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• Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

  William Warburton

  Truth, Tests, Reason

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

  William Warburton

  Regulation, Ancient, Manners

  William Warburton, Richard Hurd (1811). “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”, p.62

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

  William Warburton

  Imagination, Mind, Enthusiasm

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

  William Warburton

  Soul, Firsts, Taught

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• 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.

  William Warburton

  Respect, Passion, Mind

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