In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.
Criss JamiStichwörter: originality faith risk genius determination foolish illusion perseverance fool misunderstood taking-risks brilliance first-impression mistaken geniuses glance mistaken-identity wheels
Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.
Criss JamiStichwörter: individuality talent coolness originality conformity nonconformity independence fool skill trends cool
The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.
Criss JamiStichwörter: lies jealousy frustration falsehood slander fool deceit listen envy jealous troublesome annoying haters
True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle; it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.
Criss JamiStichwörter: experience courage rebels risk fool lifestyle misunderstood cool original pioneers glamorous standing-out take-a-stand
I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.
L.M. MontgomeryI don't agree that when you love, you are blind or fool. You just get wiser and see clearer what is best and of worth.
Hark Herald SarmientoStichwörter: love wise worth fool blindness blind clear
I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
William FaulknerYou must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
C.S. LewisStichwörter: god jesus demon fool teacher son madman
The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland.
The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.
The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides.
The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun.
The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus.
The moral of the story?
Kids are smart.
Stichwörter: plant children sun water child smart fool desert clever kids plants flower grandparents moral adult kid dry grandparent wet sunlight shade grownups thriving watering cactus fern florist flowerbox thrive wetland
None of them seemed to mind sliding around in the faeces and choking in the smoke. They were determined not to miss the opportunity of watching a foreigner make a fool of himself.
Tahir ShahStichwörter: foolishness fool foreigner
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