Quotes from Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.