Samuel Johnson Quotes

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.

Samuel Johnson

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• I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.

  

  Adam Goldberg
  • Me
  • Known
  • Sure

• When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Law
  • Conscience
  • Follow

• So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Long
  • Women
  • Past

• Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Life
  • Black
  • Culture

• Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Earth
  • Food
  • Environment

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • People
  • Like
  • Irish

• Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Life
  • Real
  • May

• We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Time
  • Home
  • Brother

• It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Couple
  • Difficult
  • Now

• I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Great
  • School
  • Art

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • Travel
  • Language

• I am about safety for the people and the planet.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Safety
  • Planet

• A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.

  

  Zendaya
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Women

• Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Always
  • Breakfast

• The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Yourself

• I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Money
  • Pride
  • Stars

• In 2009, at the Vancouver Peace Summit, I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern-day slavery; weeks later, I flew down to Los Angeles and met with the director of Free the Slaves; thus began my journey into exploring modern-day slavery.

  

  Lisa Kristine
  • Free
  • Peace
  • Journey

• Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Knowledge
  • Me
  • Training

• Kant ... discovered 'the scandal of reason,' that is the fact that our mind is not capable of certain and verifiable knowledge regarding matters and questions that it nevertheless cannot help thinking about.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Help

• These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Music
  • Knowledge
  • Creator

• Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Knowledge