Art Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Being wise Eye History Letters Passing Passings Patron Pauses Philosophy Turns Wisdom Wise World
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
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By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world. — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
“The vainglory of wishing to understand is dangerous, immoral and, above all, old-fashioned. The modern way – perhaps the final way - is to… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“But all this doesn´t happen effortlessly, as demonstrated by patients who surgically recover their eyesight after decades of blindless: they do not suddenly see… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“Enrage against laziness of the brain. Occupy your mind continuously with the most luminous passions hidden within you.” — Klaudio Marashi Copy Share Image
“Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes, and meditate to know if the world's true or lies, may do so. It's their choice.… — rabindranath tagore Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image