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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Understanding, 50th Birthday, Age
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 4, 1799.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Birthday, Age, Needs
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook C 33, 1799.

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Time, Children, Age
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 51, 1799.

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