Famous Quotes / Georg C. Lichtenberg
137 Quotations by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- 81. People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
- 82. Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
- 83. Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without ...
- 84. Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the hea ...
- 85. Reading means borrowing.
- 86. Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clou ...
- 87. So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest ...
- 88. Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
- 89. That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet c ...
- 90. The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
- 91. The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.
- 92. The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
- 93. The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, w ...
- 94. The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of sayi ...
- 95. The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of sayi ...
- 96. The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and ...
- 97. The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
- 98. The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Tem ...
- 99. The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
- 100. The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly th ...