138 Quotes by William Ralph Inge

There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words “my country” may evoke.

Don’t break the silence unless you can improve on it.

The greatest obstacle to progress is not man’s inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn’t got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn’t see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.

There are no rewards or punishments – only consequences.

There are two kinds of fools: one says, “This is old, therefore it is good”; the other says, “This is new, therefore it is better.

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. ‘You forget,’ said the Devil, with a chuckle, ’that I have been evolving too.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one’s own mind, not other peoples.

When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, “My dear, we live in an age of transition.”