It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about ability
Quotes by Samuel Johnson, page 5
193 quotes by Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson - english author
Was born on 18 sep 1709.
Died on 13 dec 1784, at 75 years old.
Died on 13 dec 1784, at 75 years old.
Origin country: United Kingdom
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about man
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about equality, state, happiness
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about doubt, thinking
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about suffering, bad
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about virtue, beauty, light, truth
It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about wealth, man
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about lie, truth, world
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about nation, people
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about perfection
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about time, man
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about knowledge
Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about conversation, man, life
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about curiosity, knowledge
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about difficulties, pleasure, life
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Quote by Samuel Johnson about society, life
