Quotes by : Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.....

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the....

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything one's last is to come to terms with everything.....

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.....

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.....

The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.