All Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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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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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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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.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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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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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
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Intelligence
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To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
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Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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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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