339 Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve

If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called Damn It.

We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.

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.