« All Voluntary Quotes · Samuel Johnson's Page
Voluntary Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect…
- Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
- We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and…
More Voluntary Quotes
- To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour,… — Samuel Johnson
- If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same… — Winthrop W. Aldrich
- We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling… — H. P. Blavatsky
- Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be… — Harry Browne
- Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities. — Harry Browne
- The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take… — William James
- Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. — Seneca the Younger