Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes About Excuses

Quotes about: Excuses

• Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Firsts, Blame, Excuse

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 39, 1799.

• People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an extensive independent contemplation of things.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Independent, Discovery, People

• Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Blame, Excuse, Should

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 39, 1799.

• Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Average, Mind, Brain

  "Aphorisms" by Georg C. Lichtenberg, ("Notebook K", K 39), (1789-1793).

• The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Want, Excuse, Excellent

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