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William Ralph Inge Quotes

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
William Ralph Inge

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Clergyman Quotes
Category:
English Clergyman Quotes
Date of Birth:
June 6, 1860
Date of Death:
February 26, 1954
Nationality:
English
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Select William Ralph Inge Quotations:
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
William Ralph Inge

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William Ralph Inge

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
William Ralph Inge

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
William Ralph Inge

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
William Ralph Inge

Originality is undetected plagiarism.
William Ralph Inge


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