Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
