There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know. - Georg C. Lichtenberg
Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. - Georg C. Lichtenberg
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking. - Georg C. Lichtenberg
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills. - Georg C. Lichtenberg
Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness. - Georg C. Lichtenberg
The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. - Georg C. Lichtenberg
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. - Georg C. Lichtenberg
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. T… - Georg C. Lichtenberg
The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. T…
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. - Georg C. Lichtenberg
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.
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