The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
From Georg C. Lichtenberg
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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