Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergTags: genius
It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergTags: truth
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergTags: belief
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergTags: habit
Everything that matters in life flows through tubes.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergI cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergTags: change social-justice
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergTags: imitation opposite course-of-action
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergTags: character jokes weaknesses
Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergThe highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergTags: criticism critics mediocrity
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