Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Author Details:
Topic:
Intelligence Quotes
Type:
Physicist Quotes
Date of Birth:
July 1, 1742
Date of Death:
February 24, 1799
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Albert Einstein
Stephen Hawking
Niels Bohr
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Brian Greene
Paul Dirac
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Select Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotations:
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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
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
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Quote Keywords:

Bright,
Closer,
Everyone,
Genius,
Geniuses,
Ideas,
Least,
Once,
Real,
Simply,
Their,
Together,
Year
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Bright,
Closer,
Everyone,
Genius,
Geniuses,
Ideas,
Least,
Once,
Real,
Simply,
Their,
Together,
Year
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All Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotations:
A book is a mirror: if...
A handful of soldiers is always...
A person reveals his character by...
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by...
Be wary of passing the judgment...
Delight at having understood a very...
Doubt must be no more than...
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
Even truth needs to be clad...
Every man has his moral backside...
Everyone is a genius at least...
God created man in His own...
He who is in love with...
He who says he hates every...
Here take back the stuff that...
I am convinced we do not...
I believe that man is in...
I cannot say whether things will...
If all else fails, the character...
If people should ever start to...
If the little bit you have...
If you are going to build...
It is a question whether, when...
It is almost everywhere the case...
It is in the gift for...
Just as the performance of the...
Just as we outgrow a pair...
Man is a masterpiece of creation...
Man is to be found in...
Man loves company - even if it...
Many things about our bodies would...
Men still have to be governed...
Much can be inferred about a...
Never undertake anything for which you...
Nothing can contribute more to peace...
Nothing is more conducive to peace...
Nothing makes one old so quickly...
Nowadays three witty turns of phrase...
Once we know our weaknesses they...
One might call habit a moral...
One must judge men not by...
Perhaps in time the so-called...
Prejudices are so to speak the...
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
That man is the noblest creature...
The American who first discovered Columbus...
The fly that doesn't want to...
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of...
The human tendency to regard little...
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly...
The most perfect ape cannot draw...
The noble simplicity in the works...
The pleasures of the imagination are...
The sure conviction that we could...
There are people who possess not...
There are very many people who...
There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism...
There is no greater impediment to...
To be content with life or...
To do the opposite of something...
To err is human also in...
To grow wiser means to learn...
To receive applause for works which...
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
We accumulate our opinions at an...
We are obliged to regard many...
We cannot remember too often that...
We have no words for speaking...
We say that someone occupies an...
What is called an acute knowledge...
What is the good of drawing...
When an acquaintance goes by I...
With a pen in my hand...
With most people disbelief in a...
With prophecies the commentator is often...
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