339 Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.

A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.

To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.

So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.