A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
SAMUEL JOHNSONYou can never be wise unless you love reading.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
-
-
No man was ever great by imitation.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
The future is purchased by the present.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
You can never be wise unless you love reading.
SAMUEL JOHNSON