“What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWritingInterestOughtMy FriendsConcernPrintedMe Alone Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.” KnowsMenReflection Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.” KnowsWritingMindWeatherBest ThingsSunshine Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.” KnowsWriting Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.” KnowsGivingDoneSakeDeedsReportsFatherland Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.” ThinkingKnowsWeaknessHarmCeaseFallibility Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.” KnowsBelieveRunningBeautifulStrange Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.” KnowsMindBodyForgetAccountsConservationOf My Mind Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?” IfsKnowsMenWellsDoeWarPoorInfluenceConditionsFoodInspireHealthExerciseResponsibleWinePreparedVisibleSoupPumpsGreat Influence Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.” KnowsKindDoeHateFlatteryEarnest Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.” KnowsFeelsMeanGrowsLearningWiseSubjectsJudgingInstrumentsFaultsSelf KnowledgeWiser Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.” ThinkingKnowsWayDoeGreaterProgressIgnoranceObstacles Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown.” KnowsWellsLittlesFoundHalfEventsMoralityGoodnessUniversalEverydayLittle ThingsCrownsLet It GoPenniesIngenuityGreat OnesRaindropsApothecary Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.” KnowsWantInspirationalMadeImportantPhilosophyAsksWatchesKnow HowImportant ThingsFruit Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.” KnowsMenImagineBlindImagine That Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.” KnowsBelieveDoeScienceOrderCausesSpiders Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
