Quotes by Lichtenberg, Georg C.

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one c >>

If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe >>

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure po >>

Quotations about Scholars and Scholarship

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's powe >>

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking >>

The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago >>

People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.