01UndatedA book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it you can't expect an apostle to look out.G. C. Lichtenberg / quote ↗
03UndatedNever undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.G. C. Lichtenberg / quote ↗
04UndatedMost men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay than they think.G. C. Lichtenberg / quote ↗
05UndatedEveryone is a genius at least once a year a real genius has his original ideas closer together.G. C. Lichtenberg / quote ↗
06UndatedSometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede - not because they have a hundred feet but because most people can't count above fourteen.G. C. Lichtenberg / quote ↗
08UndatedEvery man has his moral backside too which he doesn't expose unnecessarily but keeps covered as long as possible by the trousers of decorum.G. C. Lichtenberg / quote ↗
09UndatedThe lower classes of men though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.G. C. Lichtenberg / quote ↗
10UndatedHe who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.G. C. Lichtenberg / quote ↗
11UndatedWith most people doubt about one thing is simply blind belief in another.G. C. Lichtenberg / quote ↗
12UndatedOne can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.G. C. Lichtenberg / quote ↗
13UndatedBad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.G. C. Lichtenberg / quote ↗
