Book Quote by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Download Open image ““A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.”” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books
A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“True apostles do not speak to flatter people. True apostles are not self seeking. True apostles do not seek praise from mere men.” — brother Billy Copy Share Image
“There were many words piled up inside my chest, stories waiting to be told. I wanted to hand all this knowledge to one other… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Books are like mirrors , you only see in them what you already have inside you” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you,” answered Julián.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“We advise disciples not to follow anyone. Let them follow themselves. Each one should follow his resplendent and luminous inner Being.” — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
“but God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.” — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“-- that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“Books are boring.' 'Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Man loves company even if only that of a small burning candle — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to have bad taste, but many people have none at all.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“The most brightly colored birds sing the worst; the same goes for people.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to… — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility? {Said in a letter to Voltaire }” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were done 'for… — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“In his Comedy , Dante Alighieri names Virgil, with many tokens of respect, as his teacher, and yet as Herr Meinhard remarks, makes such… — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same state. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image