Top 75 Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

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

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

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

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.