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Many Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
- If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve
- To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many…
- To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.
- Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up…
- He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
- If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
- The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
- We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
- In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.
- Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.
- Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid…
- Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our…
- Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult…
- Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
- The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
- There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson
- I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. — Rowan Atkinson