Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

Judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!

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

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

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

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

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

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

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out.

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