Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

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

Change, Cannot, Whether

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

Intelligence, Real, Together

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Life, Live, Become

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Dreams, Her, Mistress

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

God, Process, Create

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Men, Through, Find

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Wisdom, Wise, Stupid

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Greatest, Stupidity, Talent

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Character, Nothing, Else

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Peace, Mind, Nothing

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Age, Opinions, Weakest

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

Men, Judge, Made

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Society, Time, Thought

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Greatest, Sickness, Mankind

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Character, Nothing, Person

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Small, Company, Candle

Men still have to be governed by deception.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Men, Deception, Governed

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Real, Cannot, Poor

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Find, Difficult, Judgment

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Good, Reason, Wanted

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Done, Him, Often

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Book, Mirror, Looks

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Soldiers, Handful

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Doubt, Become, Dangerous

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Build, Air, Cards

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Scientist

Born: July 1, 1742

Died: February 24, 1799

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