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 look out” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 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 peer 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
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
A disciple once complained, "You tell us stories, but you never reveal their meaning to us." The master replied, "How would you like it… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“APOSTLE (APO'STLE) n.s.[apostolus, Lat. person sent with mandates by another.It is particularly applied to them whom our Saviour deputed to preach the gospel. But… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The gospel, as a glass [mirror], should be kept clean and clear in the pulpit,” he wrote, “that the hearers may see the glory… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
“What is a disciple? It is not a mindless follower. A disciple is a student. When Paul prohibits women teaching men, he (in the… — Nancy Wilson Copy Share Image
“One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The one use of the Bible is to make us look at Jesus, that through him we might know his Father and our Father,… — George MacDonald 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
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
“Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.” — 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