Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage – he won’t encounter many rivals. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
The fly that doesn’t want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
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. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
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
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
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
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
