The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. He was the first person in Germany to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics. He is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called Sudelbücher, a description modelled on the English bookkeeping term "waste books" or "scrapbooks", and for his discovery of the tree-like electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.
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Judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
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Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?
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The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
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Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.
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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
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There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.