14 Quotes by Christoph Martin Wieland

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.

It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time.

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

I have often thought that however learned you may talk about it, one knows nothing but what he learns from his own experience. [Ger., Da dacht ich oft: schwatzt noch so hoch gelehrt, Man weiss doch nichts, als was man selbst erfahrt.]

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes

To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.