Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse. - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment. - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him. - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of mankind which we apparently can hardly attain without going through the invigorating hibernation of a new barbarism. - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum. - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams. - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on. - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are. - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery. - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so. - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The great rule If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special. - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Be wary of passing the judgment obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty elephants and poodles find many things obscure. - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking. - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed. - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive. . . - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swatter. - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect. - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm. - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them. - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species. - G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Vernon Jordan, Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 85