Knows Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

10 Knows quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Georg C. Lichtenberg’s humor shines through his thoughts on knowledge. In ten short quips he mixes scientific curiosity with a satirical twist, offering a light‑hearted yet sharp view of what it means to truly know something.

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I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the…

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To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.

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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.

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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…

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Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not…

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We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it…

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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a…

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Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more…

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As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much…

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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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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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