Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

No creature smarts so little as a fool.

It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

It needs brains to be a real fool.

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

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

Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.

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.

It is the property of fools to be always judging.

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.

God cannot save them from fools.

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

He's Black Council," I said. "Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered. I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier." Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.