Mind Quotes by Samuel Johnson

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

— Samuel Johnson

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

— Samuel Johnson

Clear your mind of cant.

— Samuel Johnson

Celestial wisdom calms the mind.

— Samuel Johnson

A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.

— Samuel Johnson

Never mind the use--do it!

— Samuel Johnson

The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.

— Samuel Johnson

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.

— Samuel Johnson

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

— Samuel Johnson

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

— Samuel Johnson

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

— Samuel Johnson

Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ Church and All Souls.

— Samuel Johnson

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

— Samuel Johnson

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

— Samuel Johnson

When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic…

— Samuel Johnson

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves…

— Samuel Johnson

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond…

— Samuel Johnson

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

— Samuel Johnson

Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which…

— Samuel Johnson

A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.

— Samuel Johnson

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without…

— Samuel Johnson

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed…

— Samuel Johnson

Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given…

— Samuel Johnson

A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may…

— Samuel Johnson

There are certain topicks which are never exhausted. Of some images and sentiments the mind of man may be said to be…

— Samuel Johnson

To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and…

— Samuel Johnson

There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a…

— Samuel Johnson

Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride…

— Samuel Johnson

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing…

— Samuel Johnson

Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired… Do not suffer life to stagnate;…

— Samuel Johnson

Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects…

— Samuel Johnson

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.…

— Samuel Johnson

Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good…

— Samuel Johnson

Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities…

— Samuel Johnson

If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in…

— Samuel Johnson

He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an…

— Samuel Johnson

Human experience, which is constantly contradicting theory, is the great test of truth. A system, built upon the discoveries of a great…

— Samuel Johnson

To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm…

— Samuel Johnson

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain

— Samuel Johnson

“There is no problem the mind of man can set that the mind of man cannot solve.”

— Samuel Johnson