Samuel Butler a Little Knowledge
To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it.
Samuel ButlerIt is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
Samuel ButlerPeople are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Samuel ButlerOne of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
Samuel ButlerIs life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
Samuel ButlerLife is one long process of getting tired.
Samuel ButlerGenius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.
Samuel ButlerSilence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
Samuel JohnsonIt is better to live rich than to die rich.
Samuel JohnsonTo A Child Dancing In The Wind
Dance there upon the shore;
What need have you to care
For wind or water's roar?
And tumble out your hair
That the salt drops have wet;
Being young you have not known
The fool's triumph, nor yet
Love lost as soon as won,
Nor the best labourer dead
And all the sheaves to bind.
What need have you to dread
The monstrous crying of wind!
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
Samuel BeckettKnowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.
Samuel SmilesA desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being whose mind is not debauched will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
Samuel JohnsonKnowledge is more than equivalent to force.
Samuel JohnsonIntegrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel JohnsonKnowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel JohnsonThere is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.
Joseph ButlerThe world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
Samuel JohnsonAnd by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.
Octavia ButlerThe other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
Samuel P. Huntington