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Famous Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
“Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.”
“How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!”
“A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!”
“To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.”
“Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.”
“There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.”
“One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.”
“Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.”
“Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.”
“We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.”
“One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.”
“Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.”
“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.”
“Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.”
“A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.”
“The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.”
“The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.”
“To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.”
“A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.”
“There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.”