--- title: "17 Littles Quotes By Georg C. Lichtenberg" description: "17 Littles quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg. Plus more from Georg C. Lichtenberg and more Littles sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fb/georg-c-lichtenberg-1087_alike_in-each-of-us-there-is-a-little-of-all-o_1113950.png" --- > [In each of us there is a little of all of us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/in-each-of-us-there-is-a-little-of-all-of-us/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fb/georg-c-lichtenberg-1087_alike_in-each-of-us-there-is-a-little-of-all-o_1113950.png) > [Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/why-does-a-suppurating-lung-give-so-little-warning-and-a-sore-on-the/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/993/georg-c-lichtenberg-1087_doe_why-does-a-suppurating-lung-give-so-litt_1295887.png) > [Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/truly-men-make-too-little-use-of-their-lives-and-so-it-is-no-wonder/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93f/georg-c-lichtenberg-1087_greatness_truly-men-make-too-little-use-of-their-l_1534496.png) > [Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/universal-morality-is-to-be-found-in-little-everyday-penny-events/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cd/georg-c-lichtenberg-1087_character_universal-morality-is-to-be-found-in-lit_1277956.png) > [What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/what-we-are-able-to-judge-with-feeling-is-very-little-the-rest-is-all/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77e/georg-c-lichtenberg-1087_able_what-we-are-able-to-judge-with-feeling-i_2646221.png) > [The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/the-great-rule-if-the-little-bit-you-have-is-nothing-special-in/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd1/georg-c-lichtenberg-1087_bits_the-great-rule-if-the-little-bit-you-hav_1305839.png) > [The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/the-greatest-things-in-the-world-are-brought-about-by-other-things/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/04f/georg-c-lichtenberg-1087_causes_the-greatest-things-in-the-world-are-bro_1016504.png) > [How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/how-happily-some-people-would-live-if-they-troubled-themselves-as/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/555/georg-c-lichtenberg-1087_happiness_how-happily-some-people-would-live-if-th_3192910.png) > [Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/great-men-too-make-mistakes-and-many-among-them-do-it-so-often-that/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/767/georg-c-lichtenberg-1087_failure_great-men-too-make-mistakes-and-many-amo_2326720.png) > [No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/no-people-are-more-conceited-than-those-who-depict-their-own-feelings/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/710/georg-c-lichtenberg-1087_command_no-people-are-more-conceited-than-those_2984650.png) > [First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/first-there-is-a-time-when-we-believe-everything-then-for-a-little/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b7/georg-c-lichtenberg-1087_believe_first-there-is-a-time-when-we-believe-ev_2113316.jpg) > [Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/before-one-blames-one-should-always-find-out-whether-one-cannot/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a6/georg-c-lichtenberg-1087_average_before-one-blames-one-should-always-find_2670857.png) > [Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/do-not-judge-god-s-world-from-your-own-trim-your-own-hedge-as-you/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e03/georg-c-lichtenberg-1087_advice_do-not-judge-god-s-world-from-your-own-t_1434929.png) > [The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/the-journalists-have-constructed-for-themselves-a-little-wooden/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e10/georg-c-lichtenberg-1087_chapel_the-journalists-have-constructed-for-the_942495.png) > [As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/as-the-few-adepts-in-such-things-well-know-universal-morality-is-to/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d99/georg-c-lichtenberg-1087_apothecary_as-the-few-adepts-in-such-things-well-kn_240856.jpg) > [It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/it-is-hardly-to-be-believed-how-spiritual-reflections-when-mixed-with/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d1/georg-c-lichtenberg-1087_attention_it-is-hardly-to-be-believed-how-spiritua_807943.jpg) > [I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/i-am-grateful-that-i-am-not-as-judgmental-as-all-those-censorious/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64b/georg-c-lichtenberg-1087_grateful_i-am-grateful-that-i-am-not-as-judgmenta_2090980.png) ## Other authors on Littles ## More by Georg C. Lichtenberg > [If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/if-people-should-ever-start-to-do-only-what-is-necessary-millions/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) > [We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/we-can-see-nothing-whatever-of-the-soul-unless-it-is-visible-in-the/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) > [The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/the-wisdom-of-providence-is-as-much-revealed-in-the-rarity-of-genius/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/i-ceased-in-the-year-1764-to-believe-that-one-can-convince-one-s/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) > [Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/probably-no-invention-came-more-easily-to-man-than-heaven/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) > [It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/it-is-a-great-shame-most-of-our-words-are-misused-tools-which-often/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) > [To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/to-live-when-you-do-not-want-to-is-dreadful-but-it-would-be-even-more/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) > [He who understands the wise is wise already.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/he-who-understands-the-wise-is-wise-already/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/the-fruits-of-philosophy-are-the-important-thing-not-the-philosophy/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) > [He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/he-who-says-he-hates-all-kinds-of-flattery-and-says-so-in-earnest-has/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) > [One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/one-can-live-in-this-world-on-soothsaying-but-not-on-truth-saying/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) > [Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/actual-aristocracy-cannot-be-abolished-by-any-law-all-the-law-can-do/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) > [One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/one-of-the-greatest-and-also-the-commonest-of-faults-is-for-men-to/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) > [People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/people-who-never-have-any-time-on-their-hands-are-those-who-do-the/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) > [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](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/an-hour-glass-is-a-reminder-not-only-of-time-s-quick-flight-but-also/) [Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/littles/georg-c-lichtenberg/#itemlist", "name": "17 Littles Quotes By Georg C. 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