There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
More Quotes from 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
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Thought & Thinking QuotesThe taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
Susan Sontag
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Walter Winchell
Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?
Dan Rather