tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post2152018412489887599..comments2024-03-28T19:56:32.848-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `Perhaps I Am Better Than I Should Have Been'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-32063502907625162812024-01-14T17:23:42.402-06:002024-01-14T17:23:42.402-06:00"As Johnson wrote in The Rambler #2: “Men mor..."As Johnson wrote in The Rambler #2: “Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.” "<br /><br />Thought of Sam on seeing AWAD's Thought For Today, and a reader's comment on it:<br /><br />A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see. -Baltasar Gracian, writer and philosopher (8 Jan 1601-1658)<br /><br />It is very much like what Alexander Pope wrote in his “Essay on Criticism” (1711):<br /><br />Men must be taught as if you taught them not;<br />And things unknown proposed as things forgot.<br /><br />Lawrence Crumb, Eugene, Oregon<br />mike zimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08688913712302681707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-57343107478697994292012-09-18T15:29:39.068-05:002012-09-18T15:29:39.068-05:00I don't think anyone can improve on W. Jackson...I don't think anyone can improve on W. Jackson Bate's summing up of Johnson's life. In the last sentence of his magisterial biography of Johnson, Bate writes, "With all the odds against him, he had proved that it was possible to get through this strange adventure of life, and to do it in a way that is a tribute to human nature."Bruce Floydnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-48694094089966281892012-09-18T10:11:21.094-05:002012-09-18T10:11:21.094-05:00Good words. Dr. Johnson always strikes the right ...Good words. Dr. Johnson always strikes the right note. The more I read Johnson, and read about him, the more impressively great he becomes. Johnson provides many reminders to us as we read him. This post reminds me that I, too, have a sixty-fourth birthday coming up at the end of next month.<br /><br />TJGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com