Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Famous Quotes
"Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself."
"Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse."
To read means to borrow to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts.
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
"I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does."
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.
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.
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
"He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards."
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes
"First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe."
"Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him."
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
"With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotations
The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.
Alexander Penney
"A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted."
George Santayana
What happens when the future has come and gone
Robert Half
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
Samuel Goldwyn
Study the past if you would define the future.
Confucius
"From the way Denny's shaking his head, he's either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye."
Jerry Coleman
The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers
"This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give, the more they possess."
Rainer Maria Rilke
We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us.
La Rochefoucauld
"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."
George Bernard Shaw