Georg C. Lichtenberg Littles Quotations

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

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

The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.

Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.

Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.