He was indeed another contender for 'the wisest fool in Christendom'.

Ah, it is a wise fool that knows his own mother tongue.

"Where else but from doubt can faith arise, wise fool?"

Youssef, a wise fool, lives in the remains of a building, collecting photographs of happy people.

Burnside, as he did in Chapter 3, plays the role of the wise fool.

People didn't call them "idiot savants" or "wise fools" these days.

If this is buffoonery, then Harris and the Bushes are wise fools indeed.

In his age, as in ours, wise fools sabotage words to get at the truth.

Yet strangely, like literature's wise fool, has a wisdom that touches everyone.

Liu Binyan portrays himself in this moving memoir as a wise fool.