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Understanding Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
- I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying…
- 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…
- 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,…
- Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.
- All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails…
- To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew…
- The size of a man's understanding can be justly measured by his mirth.
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- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
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- The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. — Paulo Coelho
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- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood