Knowledge

"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it." Samuel Johnson, quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 -...

Life

"A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity." Samuel...