--- title: "24 Degrees Quotes By Samuel Johnson" description: "24 Degrees quotes by Samuel Johnson. Plus more from Samuel Johnson and more Degrees sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b7/samuel-johnson-50_degrees_all-power-of-fancy-over-reason-is-a-degr_420576.png" --- > [All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/all-power-of-fancy-over-reason-is-a-degree-of-madness/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b7/samuel-johnson-50_degrees_all-power-of-fancy-over-reason-is-a-degr_420576.png) > [Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/reason-will-by-degrees-submit-to-absurdity-as-the-eye-is-in-time/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d58/samuel-johnson-50_absurdity_reason-will-by-degrees-submit-to-absurdi_2610614.png) > [No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/no-degree-of-knowledge-attainable-by-man-is-able-to-set-him-above-the-3/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e65/samuel-johnson-50_able_no-degree-of-knowledge-attainable-by-man_3211258.png) > [In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/in-all-pointed-sentences-some-degree-of-accuracy-must-be-sacrificed/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b14/samuel-johnson-50_accuracy_in-all-pointed-sentences-some-degree-of_745608.png) > [A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/a-generous-and-elevated-mind-is-distinguished-by-nothing-more/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/04c/samuel-johnson-50_curiosity_a-generous-and-elevated-mind-is-distingu_2019270.png) > [To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/to-have-the-management-of-the-mind-is-a-great-art-and-it-may-be/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a4/samuel-johnson-50_art_to-have-the-management-of-the-mind-is-a_2203123.jpg) > [In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/in-this-work-are-exhibited-in-a-very-high-degree-the-two-most/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca3/samuel-johnson-50_books_in-this-work-are-exhibited-in-a-very-hig_2918743.png) > [Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/evil-is-uncertain-in-the-same-degree-as-good-and-for-the-reason-that/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a82/samuel-johnson-50_degrees_evil-is-uncertain-in-the-same-degree-as_1215156.png) > [Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/contempt-is-a-kind-of-gangrene-which-if-it-seizes-one-part-of-a/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1fc/samuel-johnson-50_character_contempt-is-a-kind-of-gangrene-which-if_2967777.png) > [There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/there-is-a-certain-degree-of-temptation-which-will-overcome-any/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/640/samuel-johnson-50_approach_there-is-a-certain-degree-of-temptation_2556939.png) > [Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/scarcely-any-degree-of-judgment-is-sufficient-to-restrain-the/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e50/samuel-johnson-50_degrees_scarcely-any-degree-of-judgment-is-suffi_2019874.png) > [It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/it-is-scarcely-credible-to-what-degree-discernment-may-be-dazzled-by/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/882/samuel-johnson-50_credible_it-is-scarcely-credible-to-what-degree-d_1334844.png) > [No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/no-degree-of-knowledge-attainable-by-man-is-able-to-set-him-above-the-2/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aea/samuel-johnson-50_able_no-degree-of-knowledge-attainable-by-man_1908875.png) > [To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/to-have-the-management-of-the-mind-is-a-great-art-and-it-may-be-2/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec6/samuel-johnson-50_art_to-have-the-management-of-the-mind-is-a_2512284.jpg) > [To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/to-be-of-no-church-is-dangerous-religion-of-which-the-rewards-are/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/111/samuel-johnson-50_animated_to-be-of-no-church-is-dangerous-religion_597728.png) > [Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/many-leave-the-labours-of-half-their-life-to-their-executors-and-to/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2e/samuel-johnson-50_chance_many-leave-the-labours-of-half-their-lif_1362062.jpg) > [Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/every-man-is-prompted-by-the-love-of-himself-to-imagine-that-he/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f3/samuel-johnson-50_balance_every-man-is-prompted-by-the-love-of-him_253298.jpg) > [To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/to-write-is-indeed-no-unpleasing-employment-when-one-sentiment/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f6/samuel-johnson-50_amusement_to-write-is-indeed-no-unpleasing-employm_3006366.jpg) > [When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/when-a-language-begins-to-teem-with-books-it-is-tending-to-refinement/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eaf/samuel-johnson-50_age_when-a-language-begins-to-teem-with-book_920823.jpg) > [The art of the writer, like that of the player, is attained by slow degrees. The power of distinguishing and discriminating comick…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-art-of-the-writer-like-that-of-the-player-is-attained-by-slow/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abf/samuel-johnson-50_art_the-art-of-the-writer-like-that-of-the-p_584265.jpg) > [Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/great-abilities-are-not-requisite-for-an-historian-for-in-historical/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7d/samuel-johnson-50_ability_great-abilities-are-not-requisite-for-an_2257164.jpg) > [The student who would build his knowledge on solid foundations, and proceed by just degrees to the pinnacles of truth, is directed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-student-who-would-build-his-knowledge-on-solid-foundations-and/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/305/samuel-johnson-50_business_the-student-who-would-build-his-knowledg_1835125.jpg) > [To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/to-revenge-reasonable-incredulity-by-refusing-evidence-is-a-degree-of/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc9/samuel-johnson-50_audacity_to-revenge-reasonable-incredulity-by-ref_1721273.png) > [Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/every-man-is-prompted-by-the-love-of-himself-to-imagine-that-he-3/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e8/samuel-johnson-50_degrees_every-man-is-prompted-by-the-love-of-him_2776577.png) ## Other authors on Degrees ## More by Samuel Johnson > [The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-size-of-a-man-s-understanding-might-always-be-justly-measured-by/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/pound-st-paul-s-church-into-atoms-and-consider-any-single-atom-it-is/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [You can never be wise unless you love reading.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/you-can-never-be-wise-unless-you-love-reading/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/if-our-aim-is-to-praise-we-should-forget-to-criticize-if-our-aim-is/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/all-theory-is-against-free-will-all-experience-is-for-it/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/had-i-learned-to-fiddle-i-should-have-done-nothing-else/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/it-is-as-foolish-to-make-experiments-upon-the-constancy-of-a-friend/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/resolve-not-to-be-poor-whatever-you-have-spend-less-poverty-is-a/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-basis-of-all-excellence-is-truth-he-that-professes-love-ought-to/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/words-are-daughters-of-earth-but-ideas-are-sons-of-heaven/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-composition-of-shakespeare-is-a-forest-in-which-oaks-extend-in/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-cherubim-were-never-intended-as-an-object-of-worship-because-they/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/nobody-has-the-right-to-put-another-under-such-a-difficulty-that-he/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/that-kind-of-life-is-most-happy-which-affords-us-most-opportunities/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-time-will-come-to-every-human-being-when-it-must-be-known-how/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/degrees/samuel-johnson/#itemlist", "name": "24 Degrees Quotes By Samuel Johnson", "numberOfItems": 24, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Samuel Johnson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/all-power-of-fancy-over-reason-is-a-degree-of-madness/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b7/samuel-johnson-50_degrees_all-power-of-fancy-over-reason-is-a-degr_420576.png", "contentUrl": 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