Failure Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.”

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

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The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

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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, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others…

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Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.

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He who understands the wise is wise already.

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The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches…

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One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

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