What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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- We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
- Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
- We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
- I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
- Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.