Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
Interpretation
People often need reminders of what they already know rather than new information.
This quote by Samuel Johnson emphasizes the idea that humans tend to forget information they have learned previously and therefore often require reminders of that knowledge to retain it. It suggests that repetition and reinforcement of existing knowledge can be more beneficial than simply presenting new facts, highlighting the importance of reminders in our learning processes.
In practice
In a team meeting, I could use this quote to emphasize the importance of revisiting our project goals regularly.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
If you want to explore things you haven't explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way.
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
The Master said, At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of righ.
Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
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