Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?

Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

You can't fix stupid.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant …

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

I've always thought that when they say ignorance is bliss, the converse to that is that knowledge is hell. The more you know, the bleaker things can get.

Everything I've done in my career has been for nothing.

It makes you not believe in anything, when you do every single thing you can do right, and then there's still some way to mess it up.

Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

I'd lost count of the disappointments.

I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that darkness flung me - Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.

If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.

How my achievements mock me!

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.