Increase Quote by Samuel Johnson

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can…

— Samuel Johnson

“life of service and humility, of silent subordination and religious training, from which he wrested intellectual pleasures congruent with his”

— Thomas Mann

The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such…

— Paul Bloom

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

— Ludwig Feuerbach

There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise,…

— Samuel Johnson

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded…

— Samuel Johnson

Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near the core…

— Carl Sagan

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

— Samuel Johnson

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the…

— Samuel Johnson

The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their…

— Samuel Johnson

Inquiries into the heart are not for man.

— Samuel Johnson

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in…

— Samuel Johnson