What is called an acute knowledge of human nature ... -Georg C. Lichtenberg

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 , Scientist
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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....
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams....
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together....
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories....

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