Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all. William Temple More Quotes by William Temple More Quotes From William Temple I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what he had already done. William Temple evolution done science Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. William Temple Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves. William Temple The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered. William Temple The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it. William Temple There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others. William Temple When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. William Temple Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new. William Temple The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it? William Temple creation problem god evil The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home. William Temple child education home conversation No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else. William Temple himself anything great poet Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy. William Temple best man wisdom best-friend Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to. William Temple nothing man always men I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose. William Temple always purpose philosophy world You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill. William Temple yourself you health beauty Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. William Temple value books through like
