7 Samuel Johnson Quotes on Experience

Samuel Johnson quotes on experience

95. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

136. A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience.

143. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

154. When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

165. All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it.

166. As the Spanish proverb says, 'He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

175. Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see.