Best Georg C. Lichtenberg Sayings
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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.
Ahead
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Age
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I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary demonstration, they promptly…
Demonstration
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be…
Better
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He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
Became
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Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.
Doe
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A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.
Cannot Educate
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If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
Bad
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
Acts
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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
All
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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
Great
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Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
Chill
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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 that,…
Annoy
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If it were true what in the end would be gained Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage We have enough old…
Advantage
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So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar…
Acquired
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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
Creation
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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can…
Appears
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In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a: the rest we don't call y, as we do in common life, but…
Advantage
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are…
All
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
Clever
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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
All
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
Blessing
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Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.
Deliberate
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Those who never have time do least
Achievement
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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to…
Abolish
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