No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Despotism Copy Share Image
With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Bearing fruit Copy Share Image
If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Bird Copy Share Image
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Fool Copy Share Image
The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Courage Copy Share Image
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Art 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
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Character Copy Share Image
Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Nature Copy Share Image
People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Bears Copy Share Image
Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Brain Copy Share Image
There are many who believe that 'Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence!' Whether you are indeed 'married' or… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Cautiousness Copy Share Image
The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking.… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Chance Copy Share Image
The natural scientists of the previous age knew less than we do and believed they were very close to the goal: we… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Age Copy Share Image
It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Age Copy Share Image
Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Age Copy Share Image
Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much? — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Fool 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
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Character Copy Share Image
To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Book Copy Share Image
A man is never more serious than when he praise himself. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Greatness Copy Share Image
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Inspirational Copy Share Image
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking. — Georg C. Lichtenberg People Copy Share Image
Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Education Copy Share Image
