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Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: german
Birth: July 1, 1742 - February 24, 1799

Topics

Nature Knowledge Human Nature Back

I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.

Business People Me Think Know Film

When I was 16 years old, my brother Frank said, 'You'd better become a catcher, because you're too big and fat to do anything else.' Well, I took his advice. It was a quick way to get to the big leagues, and I've never regretted it.

Brother Better Advice Fat You Said

One of the first things I learned in the Marine Corps is that any military mission has to be defined as precisely as you can possibly define it, and then you size the force and equipment force to accomplish that mission without fail.

Mission You Accomplish Marine Corps

We think that fear must be played out in fight, with military intervention, or in flight, via isolationism - but we are not hunted game, and those are not the only options. There is also the possibility of acceptance, with its corollary of understanding and its ultimate manifestation in embracing.

Fear Acceptance Fight Game Think

A smoky eye and nice hair are not going to make my night any easier.

Amanda Seyfried

Hair Night Eye Nice Going Smoky

My father, Buddy Robinson, was superchic - a dandy. He always wore dinner jackets at night and espadrilles in the summer, but with his own flair. He was even well dressed when riding a tractor or listening to a ball game on the radio.

Father Dinner Listening Night Game

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.

Trust Choice Want Spirit Level Some

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.

Art Language Visual Native Foreign

In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.

Humor Suffering Me Saying Laugh You

Sunlight is better than secrecy when it comes to making laws.

Better Sunlight Laws Than Secrecy

My husband wrote me love letters while I was on location in Canada and pregnant. They turned into being about food, and it turned it into a cookbook. He called it 'The Tuscan Cookbook for the Pregnant Male.' It was kind of genius. When I took it a book agent, he was like, 'Men don't buy cookbooks.'

Love Food Men Me Book Husband

Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.

William Gurnall

False Agree Like Compare Scripture

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