Delighted Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Delighted Ignorance Instruction
“It is better to suffer for knowledge than to pleasure in ignorance.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. — Plato Copy Share Image
Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves,… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no artomitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses' instructions, our… — Mary Wortley Montagu Lady Copy Share Image
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary — Richard Baxter 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
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked,… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I'm a total technophobe. What is wrong with paper and pen? I was delighted when I learnt the word 'Luddite,' as I thought it… — Jasmine Guinness Copy Share Image
We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting… — Zhang Ziyi Copy Share Image
and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We're just delighted that management has come around to my way of thinking. — Paula Zahn Copy Share Image
It's an Obama book, certainly. I was delighted, and astonished, to hear recently that he was reading it. It's a book about a new… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
There are times when phrases such as 'totally astonished' just don't do the job. I am of course delighted and honoured and, needless to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In our culture of constant access and nonstop media, nothing feels more like a curse from God than time in the wilderness. To be… — Jonathan Martin Copy Share Image
I am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime minister and… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I enjoy walking by myself on the same paths where, as a little boy, I delighted in following my father around. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
If it came back I would be thrilled. I would be delighted to write more songs. I need them now because I want to… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
