339 Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.

You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...

Human pride is a strange thing; it cannot easily be suppressed, and if you stop up hole A will peep forth again in a twinkling from another hole B, and if this is closed it is ready to come out at hole C, and so on.

Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.