Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another. The… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way… — 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
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
