Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)
Georg C. Lichtenberg quotes and sayings page 7 (scientist). Here's quote # 61 through 70 out of the 75 we have.
“Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.”
“He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.”
“The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.”
“Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.”
“There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.”
“One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.”
“A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.”
“With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.”
“Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.”
“I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.”
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