When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.


The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe (ed. 1906)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.