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Georg C. Lichtenberg
German
Scientist
Born:
Jul 1
,
1742
Died:
Feb 24
,
1799
Man
Many
Nature
Nothing
Own
People
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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.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Change
Better
Will
Say
Must
Get
Cannot
Whether
Things
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Man
Only
Small
Candle
Burning
Loves
Company
Even
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Our
Once
Weaknesses
Know
Cease
Any
Us
Harm
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Truth
Needs
Age
Brainy
Clad
New
New Age
Appeal
Even
Garments
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Wisdom
Wise
Words
Stupid
No Words
He
Understands
Speaking
Who
I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Man
Free
Believe
Resort
He
Himself
Contested
His
Being
Cannot
Believes
Right
Last
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Progress
Too
See
Impediment
Take
Greater
Sciences
Quickly
Than
Place
Desire
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Worth
Virtue
Much
Premeditation
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
People
Genius
Before
Possess
Perceiving
Talent
Itself
Decade
Done
Century
Much
Certain
Who
Even
Desires
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Judge
Better
Faults
Feel
Wiser
Know
Instrument
Learn
Subject
Which
Means
Grow
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