The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language…

“The learned Fool writes his Nonsense in better Language than the unlearned; but still 'tis Nonsense.”

— Ben Franklin

There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense should have…

— Otto E. Neugebauer

“To talk one’s own nonsense is almost better than spouting someone else’s truth.In the first case, you’re a human being; but in the second,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Nonsense is better than no sense. For at least some sense can be made from it.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a…

— Leo Burnett

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

— Moliere

I've learned that while I'd be a fool not to stay open to the advice and experiences of the smart, amazing people in my…

— Alicia Keys

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“A spoon does not know the taste of soup, as a learned fool does not know the taste of wisdom.”

— Welsh proverb

There's an expression in Yiddish, which is "der gelernte naar" - a "learned fool." You can know a great deal, you can have a…

— Mark Helprin

A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.

— Josh Billings

Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

— Benjamin Franklin

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

— Benjamin Franklin