Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes

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

The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.

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 most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

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

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

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

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

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation

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