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Perfection Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to…
- Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who…
- The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener…
- Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
- It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
More Perfection Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the… — William Shakespeare
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing… — Richard Brautigan
- Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There will be… — Jonathan Schell
- Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true… — Swami Vivekananda