Who is history's wisest person?

[Renfield]

Well, does it matter anyway? I thought we were on the same team.

Do we have to be on different teams to compare infinities?

(There is no need to answer this question.)

[greg]

Wow, you're so knowledgeable, especially about shriveled genitals. Maybe, they also sell golden apples, or...hmmm, eight-legged horses? Or the magic table-cloth? I would really really take it.

Can't get that stuff cheaper anywhere else.

Do we have to be on different teams to compare infinities?

(There is no need to answer this question.)

Don't pull an Ives on me...

[Bu]

I remember somewhere in the Bible it saying that King Solomon was the wisest man who had ever lived (up to that point) or was, at the very least, very wise.  He's also credited with the Proverbs, with contain much wisdom. But, any guy who's credited as having seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines ( 1 Kings 11:3) might not have been the wisest. (Perhaps lustiest?)

Or maybe it's the case of someone not putting his wisdom into practice?

[Renfield]

He's also credited with the Proverbs, with contain much wisdom. But, any guy who's credited as having seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines ( 1 Kings 11:3) might not have been the wisest.

He had me at the recognition of a need for 300 concubines even if you have 700 wives, really; his wisdom is surely beyond all doubt.

[Bu]

He had me at the recognition of a need for 300 concubines even if you have 700 wives, really; his wisdom is surely beyond all doubt.

He didn't have any help with viagra, either.   

[Sarastro]

He had me at the recognition of a need for 300 concubines even if you have 700 wives, really; his wisdom is surely beyond all doubt.

Don Juan's wisdom is even beyonder. Beats Solomon! Though Don Juan didn't make any single of them his wife. He just promised....and promised...and promised...until the bad deed had been done.

[Bu]

More  than  0:).  I'm sure his women would have prefered instead.

[Homo Aestheticus]

Go no further;  wisdom and intellect are distinct faculties.

Yes, and I did not say they weren't.

For most people, the intellect is not measured in horsepower.

I was only making a point about 'general cognitive ability' or  g.

[Dr. Dread]

Besides, I can tell the future.......m-m-m-mmmmm, I see this thread being derailed, mm--m-mm-m-m....