Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confiden >>

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a sta >>

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see. >>

Quotations about Scholars and Scholarship

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the p >>

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking >>

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's >>

I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.

Johnson, Samuel