Abstract Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once…

— Galileo Galilei

“...having already understood everything that you will understand henceforward and until the end of your days." -Q”

— Luther Blissett

No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.

— Emile M. Cioran

“To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to…

— James Joyce

Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.

— Anonymous

“To give up having to be right, having to prove someone else wrong, having to have the last word, having to be understood -…

— Katherine Woodward Thomas

And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years…

— Dick Cheney

If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world…

— Charles Kingsley