8 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Growth

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes on growth

24. Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

62. There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.

80. We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

103. To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

126. First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

130. I have scattered seeds of ideas on almost every page which, if they fall on the right soil, may grow into chapters and even whole dissertations.

133. Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

143. One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.