Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

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• Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Thinking, Weakness, Harm

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 5, 1799.

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• I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Thinking, People

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 29, 1799.

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• Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Humor, Character, Men

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• It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Change, Fear, Sticks

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• We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Understanding, 50th Birthday, Age

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 4, 1799.

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• One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Fever, Flu, Chill

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• Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Birthday, Age, Needs

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook C 33, 1799.

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• Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?

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  Inspirational, Done, Asks

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• The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Mistake, Events, World

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 68, 1799.

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• The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Feelings, Sickness

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• Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Ignorance, Thinking, Progress

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• The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

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  Truth, Propaganda, Dangerous

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 7, 1799.

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• The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Happiness, Thinking, Worry

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• One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Character, Men, Judging

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• There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.

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  People, Important, Different

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 81, 1799.

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• It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

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  Torches, Crowds, Beard

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 4, 1799.

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• Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

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• To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Education, Opposites, Dignity

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 96, 1799.

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• If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

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  Honesty, Practice, People

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook C 54, 1799.

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• Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Past, Men, Unhappy

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• Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

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  Fruit, Produce, Foliage

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook C 26, 1799.

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• The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Science, Special, Littles

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 55, 1799.

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• It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.

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  Simple, Men, Discovery

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