"What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer’s own weaknesses reflected back from others."
― Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Nature
― Georg C. Lichtenberg
More From Georg C. Lichtenberg
- "We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest."
- "It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories."
- "The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."
More In Nature
- "All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."― Aristotle
- "Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature’s teachings."― William C. Bryant
- "Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them."― Kwame Nkrumah