“If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.”
Paul of Tarsus book First Epistle to the Corinthians
1 Corinthians 3:18 (KJV)
First Epistle to the Corinthians
“He was so crafty and cunning in petty things, as the circumventing of any great man, the change of a Favourite, &c. insomuch as a very wise man was wont to say that he believed him the wisest fool in Christendom, meaning him wise in small things, but a fool in weighty affairs.”
The Court and Character of King James I, commonly attributed to Anthony Weldon
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The Oak and the Broom.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)