Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne; Al this mene I be love... For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere; And out of olde bokes, in good feith, Cometh al this newe science that men lere.

Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.

Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

Every single journey that I've embarked on, I've learned something new.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

... things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

I re-read the books I assign to my students. Each time I do, I learn something new.

Most of us fully expect that we're going to learn things we didn't know about.

Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons.

The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.

Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.

Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.

I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

Utterance is the evidence of foregone study.

... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.

The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.