We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Stupid 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 Amount Copy Share Image
Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Balls Copy Share Image
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Argument Copy Share Image
Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Artificial Copy Share Image
To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Believe Copy Share Image
Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Accounts Copy Share Image
How few friends would remain friends if each could see the sentiments of the other in their entirety. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Entirety Copy Share Image
He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Blunt Copy Share Image
The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Bases Copy Share Image
There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Book Copy Share Image
It thunders, howls, roars, hisses, whistles, blusters, hums, growls, rumbles, squeaks, groans, sings, crackles, cracks, rattles, flickers, clicks, snarls, tumbles, whimpers, whines,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Blow Copy Share Image
Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Asks Copy Share Image
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Abstract Copy Share Image
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Difficult Copy Share Image
Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Amount Copy Share Image
The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Construction Copy Share Image
What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Employment Copy Share Image
He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Age Copy Share Image
The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Accounts Copy Share Image
No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Command Copy Share Image
As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Art 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 Doe Copy Share Image
