Character Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious… I have always…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law;…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg