Home » Quote » Geoffrey Chaucer » „the greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people“ „the greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people“ — Geoffrey Chaucer Tags:People Related quotes „Main deficiency of active people. Active men are usually lacking in higher activity--I mean individual activity. They are active as officials, businessmen, scholars, that is, as generic beings, but not as quite particular, single and unique men. In this respect they are lazy.“ — Friedrich Nietzsche „People usually blame themselves or “fate.”“ — Jacque Fresco „The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.“ — Ronald Reagan „I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.“ — Jim Morrison „What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.“ — F. Scott Fitzgerald „Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.“ — Napoleon Hill „People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.“ — Pablo Picasso