Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Fool Quotations

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine - and even, alas! Theology - from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.

I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine -- and even, alas! Theology -- from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.