Samuel Johnson Quotes About Learning
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Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.
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Learn that the present hour alone is man's.
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Language is the dress of thought.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.
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To buried merit rise the tardy bust.
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There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
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Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.
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