Samuel Johnson Learning Quotations

What I learned from being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country

Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.

Let no man rashly determine, that his unwillingness to be pleased is a proof of understanding, unless his superiority appears from less doubtful evidence; for though peevishness may sometimes justly boast its descent from learning or from wit, it is

Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.

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.

To buried merit rise the tardy bust.

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

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.

Language is the dress of thought.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.