All Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
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Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
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Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
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There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
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