3 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Experience

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes on experience

69. 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?

106. One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

158. There is a great difference between still believing something and again believing it.