Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and eve…

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook A 38, 1799.
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 41, 1799.
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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook A 38, 1799.

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