Quote

There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.

Samuel Johnson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
Biographer
Bookseller
Essayist
Lexicographer
Linguist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Poet
Politician
Teacher
Translator
Writer
Lichfield
Staffordshire
Dr Johnson
Dr. Johnson
Great Moralist
Minutes
Rather
Nothing
Would
Inconsiderable
Minute

More quotes by Samuel Johnson

Image
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson
Image
He who is extravagant will quickly become poor and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.
Samuel Johnson
Image
There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?
Samuel Johnson
Image
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...
Samuel Johnson
Image
There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.
Samuel Johnson
Image
I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.
Samuel Johnson
Image
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Samuel Johnson
Image
I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Samuel Johnson
Image
No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.
Samuel Johnson
Image
No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.
Samuel Johnson
Image
As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.
Samuel Johnson
Image
The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.
Samuel Johnson
Image
His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed.
Samuel Johnson
Image
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel Johnson
Image
If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
Samuel Johnson