"It is more from carelessness about truth than……" — Samuel Johnson
"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world."
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Samuel Johnson
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
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The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect…
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect…
— Jane Austen
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An affected laugh shows lack of self-respect in a man and lewdness in a woman. It is carelessness to go…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It…
— Eleanor Perenyi
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Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
— Henry David Thoreau
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In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every…
— Gemma Galgani
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Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and…
— Marcus Aurelius
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We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
— Sydney J. Harris
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The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness…
— George Santayana
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It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world,…
— Gautama Buddha
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Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as…
— Gautama Buddha
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