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Knowledge Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied…
- Books without the knowledge of life are useless.
- Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
- In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
- It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a…
- No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
- No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond…
- Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their…
- Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed…
- Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability…
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,…
- Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a…
- It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own…
- Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
- Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or…
- Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief…
- I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only…
- It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.
- We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures
- By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An…
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