Emulation Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Emulation Folly Pride Vanity
“Their regard may be mutually useful, since much is to be expected from emulation where nothing is to be feared from envy. I” — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
“...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Vanity occurs when we think we are invincible. Death occurs to tell us we are not.” — Vinita Kinra Copy Share Image
There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
How poor the human mind would be without vanity! It resembles a well stocked and ever renewed ware-emporium that attracts buyers of every class:… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of envy can… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble, but he… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification. — Sydney Thompson Dobell Copy Share Image
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
As an advocate of birth control I wish to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,'… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image