The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 4
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 3
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 3
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 3
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 3
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 3
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 3
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 3
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. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 2
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 0
If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 0
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 0
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 0
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. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 0
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 0
Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 0
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 0
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 0
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. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 0
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 0
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 0
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 0
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 0
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 0
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 0