"Some people read because they are too lazy to think" — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Memory is the diary that we all carry around with us

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body

Source: The Tatler, no. 147 (1710)

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Source: Emma (1815)

I think, therefore I am.

Source: A Discourse on Method (1637), Part IV

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quote