To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.
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If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.
- G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg