Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Greatness, People, Desire

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 70, 1799.

• Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Wisdom, Real, Years

• Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, Names, Feet

• To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Truth, Believe, Science

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

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Genius, Blind, Deaf

• What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Genius, Definitions, Judgment

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 92, 1799.

• Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Years, Genius, Original Ideas

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg C. Lichtenberg, 1779 - 1788.

• It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, Motivational, Genius

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 48, 1799.

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