Foolish Quotes

“People that hold onto hate for so long do so because they want to avoid dealing with their pain. They falsely believe if they forgive they are letting their enemy believe they are a doormat. What they don’t understand is hatred can’t be isolated or turned off. It manifests in their health, choices and belief systems. Their values and religious beliefs make adjustments to justify their negative emotions. Not unlike malware infesting a hard drive, their spirit slowly becomes corrupted and they make choices that don’t make logical sense to others. Hatred left unaddressed will crash a person’s spirit. The only thing he or she can do is to reboot, by fixing him or herself, not others. This might require installing a firewall of boundaries or parental controls on their emotions. Regardless of the approach, we are all connected on this "network of life" and each of us is responsible for cleaning up our spiritual registry.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“It has always been simple, but making it hard was always your way of avoiding pain. If you want to change your life, you have to change what you are doing. It wasn't his fault, her fault, their fault or the circumstances. It was your inability to choose. So, life chose for you. Somewhere in that crazy mind of yours time stopped. You thought someone would rescue you, but they didn't. You have to rescue yourself. This is not a fire you can put out; you have to walk through it, in order to reach life. Getting burned is apart of growth, didn't you know?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation worse than what it was and a braver person stole the dream you gave up on.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“As much as we don’t want to except it, there is a time limit to the best life God tries to offer you. When you disrespect it, push it away, play games with it, deny it, ignore it, are casually indecisive about it or hold it like a last resort, God gives it away to someone else that will cherish it more.”
― shannon l. alder

“I'm always angry about the death of people who are still alive, their eyes are opened, yet they can't see anything...the spell of ignorance”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“To be full of yourself is to make a fool of yourself.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you.”
― Amit Kalantri

“It's not love at first sight, it's having the sight, to distinguish true love, from just mere beauty.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Be bold and never feel shy to consult people. You may appear like a stupid person for few minutes if you ask questions; but you are likely to be a fool forever if you don’t ask at all.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“People have the power to change their perspective. They just get caught up in an endless cycle of foolish things that don’t matter.”
― Jamie Magee, Insight

“It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.”
― Oliver Gaspirtz

“Not one word was said by Moses or Aaron as to the wickedness of depriving a human being of his liberty. Not a word was said in favor of liberty. Not the slightest intimation that a human being was justly entitled to the product of his own labor. Not a word about the cruelty of masters who would destroy even the babes of slave mothers. It seems to me wonderful that this God did not tell the king of Egypt that no nation could enslave another, without also enslaving itself; that it was impossible to put a chain around the limbs of a slave, without putting manacles upon the brain of the master. Why did he not tell him that a nation founded upon slavery could not stand? Instead of declaring these things, instead of appealing to justice, to mercy and to liberty, he resorted to feats of jugglery. Suppose we wished to make a treaty with a barbarous nation, and the president should employ a sleight-of-hand performer as envoy extraordinary, and instruct him, that when he came into the presence of the savage monarch, he should cast down an umbrella or a walking stick, which would change into a lizard or a turtle; what would we think? Would we not regard such a performance as beneath the dignity even of a president? And what would be our feelings if the savage king sent for his sorcerers and had them perform the same feat? If such things would appear puerile and foolish in the president of a great republic, what shall be said when they were resorted to by the creator of all worlds? How small, how contemptible such a God appears!”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

“These are the words of a fool: I am happy to be a fool, for i won't spend my time gazing at lines difficult to decipher, while my mates are drinking with glee.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.”
― Phillips Brooks

“Happiness & Sadness are two contemporary stages in life. A wise man overcomes sadness with his wisdom, and a foolish man faces it with tears.”
― Deepak Chandra

“Where in the Bible are we told in one verse not to do a thing and in the next to do it?

‘Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.’ Prov. xxvi. 4.

‘Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.’ Prov. xxvi. 5.”
― Samuel Grant Oliphant, Queer Questions and Ready Replies: A Collection of Four Hundred Questions in History, Geography, Biography, Mythology, Philosophy, Natural History, Science, Philology, Etc., Etc

“Silence is best reserved for the fearful and foolish.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“She was right: school was lonely. The eighteen and nineteen year olds didn't socialize with the younger kids, and though there were plenty of students my age and younger [...] their lives were so cloistered and their concerns so foolish and foreign-seeming that it was as if they spoke some lost middle-school tongue I'd forgotten. They lived at home with their parents; they worried about things like grade curves and Italian Abroad and summer internships at the UN; they freaked out if you lit a cigarette in front of them; they were earnest, well-meaning, undamaged, clueless. For all I had in common with any of them, I might as well have tried to go down and hang out with the eight year olds at PS 41.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Tradition is a foolish man's excuse for not thinking”
― Joshua Ayala-Arias

“Even the wisest and the best of us can be foolish occasionally.”
― Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd

“Publicity is just a foolish act done by wise people confidently, to fool the world.”
― Pratik Akkawar

“There weren't always happy endings and children would do well to know that vile things could happen to them, that witches and wolves were desperate to steal them should they be disobedient or foolish or simply unlucky.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“It will always take a good deal more courage to do something foolishly dangerous, when it is planned, than when it happens by surprise.”
― Steven J. Carroll, Worlds Unending

“Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“There are only a few things worse than having to face up to the fact that the predicaments one finds oneself in are usually the results of one's own foolish actions.”
― Jean Ferris, Thrice Upon a Marigold

“The wise pause; the foolish react.”
― Todd Stocker

“[Martin Hellman:] Unless you're foolish enough to be continually excited, you won't have the motivation, you won't have the energy to carry it through.”
― Simon Singh

“A dog to vomit does turn,
A fool to folly but return,
The wise err and learn,
Gaining from each burn.”
― Munindra Misra, Pt. Kanhaiya Lal Misra - My Father

“foolish people are like crazy.”
― Benjamin ndayishimiye

“I’d be foolish if I didn’t return her interest.” He puffed out his chest. “And no one has ever called me a fool.”
Rosika’s jaw tightened. She rubbed her temples. “I’m giving it some serious consideration.”
― Jess Schira