Quote by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Download Open image ““The most brightly colored birds sing the worst; the same goes for people.”” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“a bird no one wants. he’s mine. my bird of pain. he doesn’t sing. that bird swaying on the bough.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken?” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“some birds aren't ment to be caged... their feathers are just to bright…” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Birds feed; then they nest. Paint them any color you want, send them halfway around the world, but they’ll always find a way back.… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Even the birds sing in the face of death But the rest of the world hears only a scream” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“O, but Everyone Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.” — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful birds do not know how beautiful they are until they see their reflection in water.” — Matshona Dhliwayo 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
“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