There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
SAMUEL JOHNSONAll travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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