344 Quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive.

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

Nothing is more inimical to the progress of science than the belief that we know what we do not yet know.

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

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don’t want to know how watches are made.

After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.