Samuel Johnson on Truth
Browse 10 quotations attributed to Samuel Johnson, catalogued under truth, with dates where available.
This page displays 10 quotations attributed to Samuel Johnson and filed under "truth" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Samuel Johnson, entry #184781: "It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world."
Attributed to Samuel Johnson, entry #65216: "Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true."
10 Quotes by Samuel Johnson on Truth
"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world."
"Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true."
"The true Genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction."
"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason."
"The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small."
"So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other."
"A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization."
"But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words."
"Round numbers are always false."
"Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. If I could have allowed myself to gratify my vanity at the expence of truth, what fame might I have acquired."