Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.

- William Temple

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

- William Temple

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

- William Temple

True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.

- 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 opinion…

- William Temple

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God…

- William Temple

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

- William Temple

Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven…

- William Temple

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…

- William Temple