One's first step in wisdom is to question everything one's last is to come to terms with everything.

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The 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 Lichtenberg

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

There is no mistaking a good book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Too much is unwholesome.

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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.

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it have always come from the book?

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg