Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Knowledge Quotes, Mankind Quotes

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those...

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those...

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the...

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the...

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled...

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled...

Beauty lies in the hands of the beerholder

Beauty lies in the hands of the beerholder

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never...

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never...

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his...

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his...

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

I have always said, the first Whig was the Devil~

I have always said, the first Whig was the Devil~

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done,...

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done,...

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is...

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is...

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love...

A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love...

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our...

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our...

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man...

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man...

If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is...

If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is...

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect,...

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect,...

I burp like everyone else and I'm promiscuous.

I burp like everyone else and I'm promiscuous.

Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law...

Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law...

And when human rights are being thrown aside, ignored, well, there's no game in progress,...

And when human rights are being thrown aside, ignored, well, there's no game in progress,...