Samuel Johnson Quotes on Experience
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New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
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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.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it.
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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.
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Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see.