A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
SAMUEL JOHNSONSir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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Truth allows no choice.
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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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