Georg C. Lichtenberg's Quotes

Georg C. Lichtenberg's Quotes 21

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater...

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the...

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our...

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Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion...

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the...

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Here take back the stuff that I am nature knead it back into the dough of...

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their...

One must judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have...

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to...

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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the...

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have...

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models...

God created man in His own image says the Bible philosophers reverse the...

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we...

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his...

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the...

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is...

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature and especially the...

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.