Wood-lice Quotes (1)
To see every day how people get the name ‘genius' just as the wood-lice in the
cellar the name ‘millipede'—not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14—this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
Lichtenberg: Aphorisms & Letters (1969), 48, translated by Franz H. Mautner and Henry Hatfield.
See also: | Believe (6) | Count (4) | Feet (2) | Genius (53) | Insect (19) | Measurement (62) | Truth (241)
