Samuel Johnson Quotes about Wisdom
Samuel Johnson (1782). “The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Extracted from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order, After the Manner of the Duke de la Roche-Foucault's Maxims”, p.69
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.291
Statement on April 14, 1775. "Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell. Volume II, 1791.
Samuel Johnson, Roger H. Lonsdale (2006). “Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets”, p.117, Oxford University Press
Quoted in Heather Lynch Piozzi, Anecdotes of ...Johnson (1786)
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
Samuel Johnson (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].”, p.304
Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”
Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1832). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.587
Samuel Johnson (1816). “A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774”, p.152
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Alexander Chalmers (1810). “The idler”, p.229
