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Study Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious…
- Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant,…
- 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 mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly…
- But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite…
- I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you…
- No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country. For…
- I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience;…
- Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted…
- Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws…
- Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves
- There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art…
- Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expenses
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