Zitat des Tages über Dumm / Foolish:
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
I never did buy things on credit, I always paid for 'em, because I can't see much difference in paying for something and just waiting a week and pay interest on it; that looks foolish to me.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
Foolish many said; foolish many, many believed.
The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.
'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' is a British comedy-drama directed by John Madden. The film is based on the 2004 novel, 'These Foolish Things', by Deborah Moggach.
Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.
Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the two most powerful neoconservative journalists, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer: he called them 'the Bomber Boys.'
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
I tried to tell them about the dating process because I'm single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had had dating. So I was really selling him hard, but the whole time he really wanted me!
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.
I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.
He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.
A lot of people thought that it was a foolish step to move to television. But for me, it is all about the creative satisfaction I get.
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
An actor would be foolish to do something that might hold up the picture, or more importantly incapacitate him. If an actor does do a stunt he needs to make sure a stunt man stands by to see that it's done correctly.
It's so easy to look foolish online.
Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Women are especially sensible in matters relating to tipping: fair but not foolish.
Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to produce the ultra-nationalist military dictatorship of General Pilsudski.
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.