6 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Behavior

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes on behavior

90. One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

104. If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

116. What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

124. Even the gentlest, most modest and best of girls are always better, gentler and more modest if their mirrors have told them they are looking more beautiful than ever.

153. The late M. who had a Catholic maid, once told me entirely bona fide: This person is a Catholic, it is true, but she is an honest, good soul. Recently she committed a perjury on my behalf.

160. We live in a world in which one fool makes many fools but one wise man only a few wise men.