--- title: "9 Errors Quotes By Samuel Johnson" description: "9 Errors quotes by Samuel Johnson. Plus more from Samuel Johnson and more Errors sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/715/samuel-johnson-50_age_there-are-in-every-age-new-errors-to-be_2181658.png" --- > [There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/there-are-in-every-age-new-errors-to-be-rectified-and-new-prejudices/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/715/samuel-johnson-50_age_there-are-in-every-age-new-errors-to-be_2181658.png) > [The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-care-of-the-critic-should-be-to-distinguish-error-from-inability/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85b/samuel-johnson-50_care_the-care-of-the-critic-should-be-to-dist_2450386.png) > [As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/as-all-error-is-meanness-it-is-incumbent-on-every-man-who-consults/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5b/samuel-johnson-50_dignity_as-all-error-is-meanness-it-is-incumbent_1411332.png) > [Among other pleasing errors of young minds is the opinion of their own importance. He that has not yet remarked, how little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/among-other-pleasing-errors-of-young-minds-is-the-opinion-of-their/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bd/samuel-johnson-50_admirer_among-other-pleasing-errors-of-young-min_337094.png) > [All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/all-truth-is-valuable-and-satirical-criticism-may-be-considered-as/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53b/samuel-johnson-50_benefactors_all-truth-is-valuable-and-satirical-crit_578516.png) > [In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/in-discussing-these-exceptions-from-the-course-of-nature-the-first/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/381/samuel-johnson-50_courses_in-discussing-these-exceptions-from-the_557303.png) > [Critics ought never to be consulted, but while errors may yet be rectified or insipidity suppressed. But when the book has once…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/critics-ought-never-to-be-consulted-but-while-errors-may-yet-be/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d9/samuel-johnson-50_arrogance_critics-ought-never-to-be-consulted-but_3030254.jpg) > [We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/we-frequently-fall-into-error-and-folly-not-because-the-true/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0c/samuel-johnson-50_action_we-frequently-fall-into-error-and-folly_1277927.jpg) > [It is a common error, and the greater and more mischievous for being so common, to believe that repentance best becomes and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/it-is-a-common-error-and-the-greater-and-more-mischievous-for-being/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a9/samuel-johnson-50_believe_it-is-a-common-error-and-the-greater-and_1803904.png) ## Other authors on Errors ## 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/errors/samuel-johnson/#itemlist", "name": "9 Errors Quotes By Samuel Johnson", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Samuel Johnson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/there-are-in-every-age-new-errors-to-be-rectified-and-new-prejudices/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/715/samuel-johnson-50_age_there-are-in-every-age-new-errors-to-be_2181658.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/715/samuel-johnson-50_age_there-are-in-every-age-new-errors-to-be_2181658.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/715/samuel-johnson-50_age_there-are-in-every-age-new-errors-to-be_2181658.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.” — Samuel Johnson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Samuel Johnson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-care-of-the-critic-should-be-to-distinguish-error-from-inability/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85b/samuel-johnson-50_care_the-care-of-the-critic-should-be-to-dist_2450386.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85b/samuel-johnson-50_care_the-care-of-the-critic-should-be-to-dist_2450386.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85b/samuel-johnson-50_care_the-care-of-the-critic-should-be-to-dist_2450386.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of…” — Samuel Johnson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Samuel Johnson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/as-all-error-is-meanness-it-is-incumbent-on-every-man-who-consults/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5b/samuel-johnson-50_dignity_as-all-error-is-meanness-it-is-incumbent_1411332.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5b/samuel-johnson-50_dignity_as-all-error-is-meanness-it-is-incumbent_1411332.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5b/samuel-johnson-50_dignity_as-all-error-is-meanness-it-is-incumbent_1411332.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon…” — Samuel Johnson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Among other pleasing errors of young minds is the opinion of their own importance. 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