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“Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.”

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Georg C. Lichtenberg

German physicist, inventor, and writer, known for his research in electricity and magnetism. He proposed Lichtenberg's law in electricity and invented various scientific instruments. more

“Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.”

Should Mind Littles Has Beens Whole Brain Quiet Blame Faults Average Excuse Superiors Great Minds

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. ... It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth ... into a liar - that I call an achievement.”

People Writing Believe Art Book Done Whole Faces Achievement Liars Sensible Sane Great Art Solemn Brevity

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles.”

People Might America Political Desire Secret Conditions West Enlightened Needles Magnetic Obtaining Secret Desire

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.”

Giving Should Motivation Brain Should Have Proof Compulsion

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.”

Writing Age Poetry Names Poet Sacred

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Those that hope little cannot grow much.”

Littles Grows

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

“The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.”

Men Fear Objects He Man Hero Overcoming Terror Foe

Book:The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

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