Wisdom Come in Dreams
I didn’t sleep well last night, and that almost always brings troubled dreams along with it. Early in the morning, I had a dream that involved a medical clinic, a small office off a tree-lined street, and there were many academics milling around the area, so it might have been a university.
A professor there said to me, “The only permanent thing about man is his idiocy.”
I thought that was strange, but some of my best friends are cynics, so it was more amusing than anything else. When I woke up, I wondered if that thought had been original to my subconscious, or if I’d heard it before. A quick Google search turned up a similar quotation from the eminent Dr. Zaius.
You are right, I have always known about man. From the evidence, I believe his wisdom must walk hand in hand with his idiocy.
