Quotes by Georg C Lichtenberg

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until...

#Georg C Lichtenberg

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

#Georg C Lichtenberg

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

#Georg C Lichtenberg

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance...

#Georg C Lichtenberg

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which...

#Georg C Lichtenberg

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or...

#Georg C Lichtenberg

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation...

#Georg C Lichtenberg

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is...

#Georg C Lichtenberg

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see...

#Georg C Lichtenberg

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made...

#Georg C Lichtenberg

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

#Georg C Lichtenberg

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving...

#Georg C Lichtenberg