To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
Georg C. LichtenbergPrejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
Georg C. LichtenbergWhat I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.
Georg C. Lichtenberg