Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.

- 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

The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

- 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…

- 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.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg