Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
SAMUEL JOHNSONA little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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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.
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Truth allows no choice.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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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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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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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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