Amusement Quote by Samuel Johnson

Thus men of more enlighten'd genius and more intrepid spirit must compose themselves to the risque of public censure, and the contempt of their…

— Jon Jones

So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting…

— James Joseph Sylvester

“Just is not by other men of intelligence that an intelligent an is afraid of being thought a fool, so it is not by…

— Marcel Proust

Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in what they…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

— Vance Havner

There is no means by which men so powerfully elude their ignorance, disguise it from themselves and from others as by words

— Gamaliel Bradford

“On the contrary, the male has a vested interest in ignorance; it gives the few knowledgeable men a decided edge on the unknowledgeable ones,…

— Valerie Solanas

“There is nothing so annoying as to be fairly rich, of a fairly good family, pleasing presence, average education, to be "not stupid," kindhearted,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have…

— Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

One might feel indignant at the injustice which deals out what is called fame with so unequal a hand, were it not for the…

— George Stillman Hillard

“Ignore ignorance. The ultimate way to deal with men with ignorant mentality who are ignorance of your purpose on earth is to ignore their…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in…

— Charles Caleb Colton