Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
More Quotes from Georg C. Lichtenberg:
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
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?
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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