Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

As soon as I did, everything, the whole room, just clicked.

The best types of problems are those that seem harder at first than when you think about it.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

When you're teaching a hard concept and the students all have puzzled looks on their faces and then suddenly you can see that 'aha' moment, that they got it, that's just an incredible thing.

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes.

Light itself is a revelation.

I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.