339 Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.

Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism

People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.

The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.