5 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Learning

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes on learning

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.

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?

70. Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

99. It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

152. The intercourse with reasonable people is advisable to everybody because, in this way, a blockhead can become wise by imitation, for the greatest blockheads can imitate, even apes and elephants can do it.