The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done. Georg C. Lichtenberg More Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg More Quotes From Georg C. Lichtenberg If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way. Georg C. Lichtenberg complainingfoodworld He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards. Georg C. Lichtenberg passiontimepeace I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account. Georg C. Lichtenberg bodymindforget Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind. Georg C. Lichtenberg distrusthonestmind You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange. Georg C. Lichtenberg runningbeautifulbelieve Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection. Georg C. Lichtenberg reviewsenormouscritical One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. Georg C. Lichtenberg successmotivationalinspirational 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 namesfeetinspirational The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing. Georg C. Lichtenberg inmateswallmight When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book? Georg C. Lichtenberg soundwritingbook Ambition and suspicion always go together. Georg C. Lichtenberg suspicionambitiontogether What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment. Georg C. Lichtenberg true-freedomemploymentfreedom The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to discard them immediately on this account. For every hypothesis which once was sound was useful for thinking of previous phenomena in the proper interrelations and for keeping them in context. We ought to set down contradictory experiences separately, until enough have accumulated to make building a new structure worthwhile. Georg C. Lichtenberg naturesciencethinking The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect. Georg C. Lichtenberg progresssecretscience The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders. Georg C. Lichtenberg dangeroussuccessfultemptation The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen. Georg C. Lichtenberg eventsmistakeworld Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about. Georg C. Lichtenberg theory It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit. Georg C. Lichtenberg habitifsreflection Ideas too are a life and a world. Georg C. Lichtenberg worldideas What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones? Georg C. Lichtenberg denydrawingsometimes
