Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Biography : German physicist, satirist and Anglophile.
Born: 1742 - Died: 1799
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Germany

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - Quotes

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - Sudelbücher /

Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence “Two times two is four.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - Sudelbücher /

doubt

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - Sudelbücher /

My body is that part of the world which my thoughts can change. Even imaginary illnesses can become real ones. In the rest of the world, my hypotheses cannot change the order of things.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - Sudelbücher /

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - Sudelbücher /

Pride, a magnanimous passion, is not blind to personal failings, but arrogance is so.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - Sudelbücher /

There are people that can believe everything they want. These are happy creatures.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - Sudelbücher /

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything: and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - Sudelbücher /

wisdom

Nothing cheers me up more than when I have grasped something difficult, and yet I rarely try to understand such difficult things. I should try to do it more often.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - Sudelbücher /

Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.
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The people who never have time are the ones who get the least done.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - Sudelbücher /

time

How close may our thoughts come at times to grazing on a great discovery?
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - Sudelbücher /

thought

I have invariably found that, all else failing, a man's character can be deduced from nothing so surely as from a jest that he takes in bad part.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - Sudelbücher /

character