Logo
Quote by Samuel Johnson
The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pa

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Broken Hearts
Author
Samuel Johnson
Read Quote

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Habits
Author
Samuel Johnson
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Miscellaneous
category

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way. – Dr. Seuss

Category:
Miscellaneous

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Category:
Miscellaneous

A problem well stated is a problem half solved. – Charles F. Kettering

Category:
Miscellaneous

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Virginibus Puerisque, 1881

Category:
Miscellaneous

Random Quotes

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Category:
Men

The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world. – Pete Hoekstra

Category:
Intelligence

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good mans love. – Euripides

Category:
good

Any day acting is an amazing day. – Kiernan Shipka

Category:
amazing