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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
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French Moralist
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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?
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
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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.
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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.
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An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
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