Famous Quotes / Georg C. Lichtenberg
137 Quotations by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- 1. A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
- 2. A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and co ...
- 3. A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
- 4. A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
- 5. A man is never more serious than when he praises himself.
- 6. A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
- 7. A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.
- 8. A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would ...
- 9. Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be impa ...
- 10. Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less ...
- 11. As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before ...
- 12. Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding ...
- 13. Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants a ...
- 14. Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
- 15. Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every person: if we gained only o ...
- 16. Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the ...
- 17. Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the ...
- 18. Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
- 19. Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
- 20. Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a ...