A Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Before Fool Lore Poor Stand Than Wiser

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German - Novelist
August 28, 1749 - March 22, 1832

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

H. P. Lovecraft

There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

Margaret of Valois

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

Alexander Pope

... you must hasten to oppose pernicious pride of mind, before it penetrates into the marrow of your bones. Resist it, curb the quickness of your mind and humbly subject your opinion to the opinions of others. Be a fool for the love of God, if you wish to be wiser than Solomon: 'If any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise' (I Cor. 3:18).

Lorenzo Scupoli

Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.

Lucretius

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.

Nancy Astor

A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.

William Graham Sumner

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

Mike Royko

Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.

Raymond Chandler

One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers.

Heinrich Hertz

More wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of the ocean. Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. All my days I have watched it and listened to it, and I know it well. At first it told to me only the plain little tales of calm beaches and near ports, but with the years it grew more friendly and spoke of other things; of things more strange and more distant in space and time.

H. P. Lovecraft

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.