„The gretest clerkes ben not the wisest men.“

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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„The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.“
— Jane Austen
„A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.“
— Roald Dahl
„Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.“
— Confucius
„And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben,Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows whenThe world was worthy of such men.“
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
„If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.“
— David Hilbert