--- title: "8 Seeing Quotes By Samuel Johnson" description: "8 Seeing quotes by Samuel Johnson. Plus more from Samuel Johnson and more Seeing sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/488/samuel-johnson-50_building_sir-if-you-wish-to-have-a-just-notion-of_343700.png" --- > [Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/sir-if-you-wish-to-have-a-just-notion-of-the-magnitude-of-this-city/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/488/samuel-johnson-50_building_sir-if-you-wish-to-have-a-just-notion-of_343700.png) > [By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/by-seeing-london-i-have-seen-as-much-of-life-as-the-world-can-show/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b02/samuel-johnson-50_life_by-seeing-london-i-have-seen-as-much-of_600717.png) > [To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/to-go-and-see-one-druidical-temple-is-only-to-see-that-it-is-nothing/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/201/samuel-johnson-50_art_to-go-and-see-one-druidical-temple-is-on_1053400.png) > [We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/we-may-have-uneasy-feelings-for-seeing-a-creature-in-distress-without/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/995/samuel-johnson-50_animal_we-may-have-uneasy-feelings-for-seeing-a_1462391.png) > [Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/life-affords-no-higher-pleasure-than-that-of-surmounting-difficulties-3/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80b/samuel-johnson-50_conquer_life-affords-no-higher-pleasure-than-tha_1693000.png) > [Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/worth-seeing-yes-but-not-worth-going-to-see/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67d/samuel-johnson-50_film_worth-seeing-yes-but-not-worth-going-to_2495172.png) > [Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/pity-is-not-natural-to-man-children-are-always-cruel-savages-are/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/873/samuel-johnson-50_children_pity-is-not-natural-to-man-children-are_2858528.png) > [It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/it-is-very-natural-for-young-men-to-be-vehement-acrimonious-and/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/549/samuel-johnson-50_conclusion_it-is-very-natural-for-young-men-to-be-v_2895023.png) ## Other authors on Seeing ## 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/seeing/samuel-johnson/#itemlist", "name": "8 Seeing Quotes By Samuel Johnson", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. 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