Wisdom Quote by Samuel Johnson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Memory is the mother of all wisdom.”

“That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.”

“Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words.”

“Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.”

“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”

“Though salience learned intuition’s call:”

“I called in yearning for illumination. The vein of yearning which always flows – sometimes hidden, sometimes veiled and buried – within our evolution alongside the Earth.”

“To love, to live, to feel so much that your world keeps spinning, faster and faster, in that wonderful, chaotic mess of humanity that you’d so hastily give up. Immortality is overrated. It is nothing but the ability to live through it all and not experience a single thing, to eat everything without tasting it at all." Isak’s eyes shone with a desperate need. He wanted, more than anything it seemed, to be like me, when all I wanted was to be like him.”

“They were quiet for a while, eating, then Oromis asked, "Can you tell me, What is the most important mental tool a person can possess?”

“Why is it that we don’t worry about a compass until we’re lost in a wilderness of our own making?”

“hold company with yourself so sacred”