Top 75 Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

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

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.