The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
