Foolish Quotes

“Ignorance is assuming that a fence is just one long gate.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It's easy to make someone look foolish if you're willing to play the fool.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne

“Too often ignorance is the preferred weapon of the self-destructive fool.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Why do we tend to dread tomorrow? Because we weren’t all that wise in living out the ‘today’ that put that ‘tomorrow’ out into tomorrow.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I don’t settle. Or more accurately, I can’t. To settle is to abandon great things to the death of smaller things. It is to desert what could have been for what never should have been. To settle is to bargain away the wildly rich abilities of our humanity in a ruinous trade-off for a lackluster existence. Settling is to declare an indefensible surrender to the evils of mediocrity at the expense of God’s resplendent and wholly viable vision for this existence of ours. No, I don’t settle because I can’t. And the fact is, neither can you. Therefore, I would suggest that you begin settling your life squarely on the reality that settling is far too unsettling to settle for.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“An attitude of Thanksgiving cannot be reconciled to any notion of entitlement, for the two stand at odds so diametrically opposed that one must be eradicated if the other is to survive. Therefore, we will either choose to be lavishly enriched by an attitude of thanksgiving that will not be diminished by depravity of any kind, or we will spend our lives fleeing from a depravity that we could not elude because we worked to obtain what we declared to be ours but never was.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To believe that truth is negotiable is to declare that we are the arbitrator of a closed case.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Wisdom keeps intelligence humble.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The only reason that I’ve become my own fire department is that I’ve become my own arsonist.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is our mission to enrich the lives of those around us. Therefore, such an action is not a choice nor does it fall to the bane of our selfish preferences. Nonetheless we presume it a choice that we defer to others who might be more aligned with such ideals. And in doing so we trudge through our lives leaving footprints empty and barren. And should a passerby catch sight of those prints, they might wonder why we were so foolish as to walk in such a way. And if at some point that passerby should happen to be us, regret will be added to the footprints which we already regret.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We reject that which would save us out of the misguided illusion that we can handily save ourselves. Yet, we plummet in the embrace of such an illusion only to deny the fall and justify the brutality of the impact. Staggering and blinded, we raise ourselves up from the carnage, lean on the crutches of weakly fabricated philosophies, and declare the illusion of self-serving savior once again. And until we relent and embrace the Savior born at Christmas, falls will be our lot, carnage our companion, and misery our destination.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don’t underestimate how far your stupidity can take you.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Detours are paths to regret.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It may have been that the detour was easier to walk and more permissive in the walking.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Perhaps the detour was the path of the gullible that appeared to be the path of the wise simply because so many were heading down it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A detour that holds itself out as the road from which it deviated is a path to regret.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Misadventures make for the some of the best adventures.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The carnage of our lives can burn hot in the flames of our indiscretions, the greed that hung us on the very leash that we thought we had firmly secured around it, or the fool within us that thought ethics to be the hiding place of the visionless coward. And over time we have come to believe that the resultant carnage of these horribly errant ideologies carries a finality so irreversible that our lives have no hope of being anything other than the ash and smoke that we have recklessly turned them into. Yet, Easter is sufficiently formidable to raise ashes into lives of astounding beauty and turn smoke into the fragrance of hope eternally reborn.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“True power does not rest in our ability to destroy something, for the fool can do that with little effort and no thought. Nor does true power rest in our ability to restore something once it’s destroyed, for that simply involves taking what we’ve done and walking it backwards. Rather, true power rests in the ability to render destruction as the thing that never happens.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Thinking that we can provide a light to our path is assuming that we have the batteries for a flashlight that we never had.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you created the map, you’ll probably never find the road.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The fool is the one who drives the road of life believing that road signs are ‘suggestions’ made by those who have no idea how to drive and nothing to do other than tell people how to do what they cannot. But what the fool fails to realize is that they never see these people in the body shops that the fool spends all of their time in.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The thing that we need to destroy is our ignorance of the thing that we seek to destroy.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If there is no intent to act on the intent, you have a ruse of the most intentional sort.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The consequences of your choices will always outlive the choices.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Kids born with too much ‘Entitlement’, and little deliverables, become Woke. That hold true anywhere in any Democracy. As is said in Hindi Idiom ‘ Fools Do Not Grow Horns’, applies to them.”
― Sandeep Sahajpal

“Kids born with too much ‘Entitlement’, and little deliverables, become Woke. That hold true in all Democracies.

As is said in Hindi Idiom ‘Fools Do Not Grow Horns’, applies to them.”
― Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

“I only fear tomorrow because of the manner in which we are crafting it today.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I have watched the world long enough to realize that men cannot run it, other than running it into the ground so deeply that they are entirely unable to run it out of it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I must observe that which I speak of before I speak of it, otherwise I claim an understanding that I don’t have with words that convey an ignorance that I do.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough