7 Samuel Johnson Quotes on Judgment

Samuel Johnson quotes on judgment

21. He who praises everybody praises nobody.

103. He was a very good hater.

130. Why, Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.

135. Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney.'

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

195. As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.

205. The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.