Georg C. Lichtenberg Inspirational Quotes

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

• Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, Done, Asks

• Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, God, Animal

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 49, 1799.

• The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Important

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

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, Peace, Thinking

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 11, 1799.

• Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, Names, Feet

• The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Philosophical

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 70, 1799.

• It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, Motivational, Genius

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 48, 1799.

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