Quotes by : Georg C. Lichtenberg

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through....

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are....

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

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

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.....

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor....

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions,....

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