One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.


The Reflections of Lichtenberg (ed. 1908)

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes

One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about...

One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about...

One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about...

One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about...