William Temple was a bishop in the Church of England. He served as Bishop of Manchester, Archbishop of York and Archbishop of Canterbury.
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If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.
—William Temple
Topics: Selfishness, Prayer
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
—William Temple
Topics: Health
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
Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.
—William Temple
Topics: Learning
Books and proverbs receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed.
—William Temple
Topics: Proverbs, Books, Reading
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
Topics: Aging, Age
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
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
—William Temple
Topics: Books, Reading
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