Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Lays Copy Share Image
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Nature Copy Share Image
A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Absent Copy Share Image
Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four." — Georg C. Lichtenberg Doubt Copy Share Image
We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Believe Copy Share Image
As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Blind Copy Share Image
Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Advice Copy Share Image
The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Greater Copy Share Image
We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Position Copy Share Image
The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Another man Copy Share Image
He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Gone Copy Share Image
How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers? — Georg C. Lichtenberg Blind 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 Littles Copy Share Image
To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Knows Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Applause Copy Share Image
There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Believe Copy Share Image
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Dreams Copy Share Image
A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Donkey Copy Share Image
If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever.… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Believe Copy Share Image
Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want? — Georg C. Lichtenberg Courage Copy Share Image
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Made Copy Share Image
I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Dies Copy Share Image
Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Belief Copy Share Image
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Dangerous Copy Share Image
