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Them Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest…
- The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to discard…
- There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler…
- To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.
- To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
- 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,…
- 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…
- Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by…
- It thunders, howls, roars, hisses, whistles, blusters, hums, growls, rumbles, squeaks, groans, sings, crackles, cracks, rattles, flickers, clicks, snarls, tumbles, whimpers, whines, rustles, murmurs, crashes,…
- Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is…
- A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas…
- The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
- Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.
- It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea…
- What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding…
- People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to…
- How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?
- The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the…
- It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.
- 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…
- One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
- One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard…
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- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster