Greatness Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

9 Greatness quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Georg C. Lichtenberg’s nine quotes on greatness combine scientific curiosity with witty observation. The brief collection captures his belief that intellectual pursuit and practical insight go hand in hand.

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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

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In every man there is something of all men.

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Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little…

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One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

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A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers

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Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in…

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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings…

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The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is…

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If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

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The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

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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…

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Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.

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It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners…

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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not…

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He who understands the wise is wise already.

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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…

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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds…

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One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is…

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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of,…

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

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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

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