Best Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes With Image

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.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

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

The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

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

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

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

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

There is no mistaking a good book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

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.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.