Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Georg C. Lichtenberg quotes and sayings page 5 (scientist). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 75 we have.
“He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.”
“To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.”
“Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.”
“A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.”
“Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.”
“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.”
“What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.”
“There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.”
“Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.”
“Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.”
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