Quotes from authors born in 1742
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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
Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
John Dingell 
Anthony Rapp 
Henry Kravis 
H. P. Blavatsky 
Julia Gardiner Tyler 
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 
John F. Kerry 
William Howard Stein