Quote #41660
Clear your mind of can't.
Samuel Johnson
About This Quote
This quote needs no introduction—at least for now. We're working on adding more context soon.
Interpretation
The injunction urges a deliberate rejection of self-limiting language and assumptions. By treating “can’t” as mental clutter rather than a fact, the line frames incapacity as something often produced by habit, fear, or premature resignation. Its force is rhetorical: it asks the reader to suspend defeatist certainty long enough to attempt, learn, or persist. In that sense, the quote belongs to a modern tradition of motivational aphorisms that emphasize agency and reframing—less a claim that anything is possible than a reminder that many obstacles become insurmountable only when we decide in advance that they are.



