Samuel Johnson Quotes About Discernment

• 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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Graduation, Education, Teaching

• It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pride, Degrees, May

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.216

• But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Deceit, Favors

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.122

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