Thursday 14 August 2014

ON HUMAN AVERSION TO INTELLECTUAL LABOUR - re Samuel Dictionary Johnson - by James Boswell

ON HUMAN AVERSION TO INTELLECTUAL LABOUR

'Johnson continued "Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labour; but even supposing knowledge to be easily obtainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it." '

-James Boswell (1740-1795) -"The Life of Samuel Johnson" (1709-1784)

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