Samuel Johnson Quotes about Belief

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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Samuel Johnson

Science, Belief, Favourite

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

Samuel Johnson

Opponents, Belief, Argument

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Samuel Johnson

Men, Degrees, Belief

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.9

The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.

Samuel Johnson

Men, May, Belief

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.524