If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because… — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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
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 Copy Share Image
It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot… — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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 Copy Share Image
I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Superstition originates among ordinary people in the early and all too zealous instruction they receive in religion: they hear of mysteries, miracles,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind. — 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 to do… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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 how watches… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
