Foolish Quotes - Page 18

• As you get older there shouldn't be anything you won't try. The payoff is that you open up whole new avenues that are fun. It's a misinterpretation of life to live it only in preparation for the next one. To subordinate the one you've got to an indefinite next round is foolish. It's a waste of this life not to live this life. What's next is anybody's guess.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Fun, Preparation, Trying

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• To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of dead, human conservatism that tends to form around the Church the way barnacles gather on the hull of a ship, all this talk about dynamism sounds foolish.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Church, Way

  Thomas Merton (2003). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.148, Shambhala Publications

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• Like anybody, I like clothes, and I enjoy what I like to wear. We might have a difference in personal outfit choices. Some might not like it. But to judge someone because of their appearance is pretty foolish. If you have time to do that, I suggest you look at yourself in the mirror and spend more time developing yourself. Come on, it's 2013.

  G-Dragon

  Mirrors, Differences, Clothes

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• To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience ... the quality of a Christian's experience depends on the quality of his faith, just as the quality of his faith depends in turn on the quality of his understanding of God's truth.

  Os Guinness

  Christian, Understanding, Quality

  Os Guinness (1976). “In Two Minds: The Dilemma of Doubt & how to Resolve it”, IVP Books

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• We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Short Life, Years, Today

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them.

  Diane Johnson

  Ideas, Novelists, Mouths

  Diane Johnson (1982). “Terrorists and novelists”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further.

  Bruce Barnbaum

  Progress, Arbitrary, Mediocrity

  Bruce Barnbaum (2017). “The Art of Photography, 2nd Edition: A Personal Approach to Artistic Expression”, p.165, Rocky Nook, Inc.

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• Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

  Og Mandino

  Children, Flower, Pieces

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.117, Bantam

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• Rather than becoming obsessed with the evil around you, ask God to give you a fresh perspective to see how He can bring good out of it. Look for the hand of God in your difficult situations. He is willing to use even the most horrible sins and the most foolish choices, as long as we trust Him to do just that.

  Phil Waldrep

  Hands, Difficult Situations, Long

  Phil Waldrep (2016). “Reaching Your Prodigal: What Did I Do Wrong? What Do I Do Now?”, p.106, Worthy Publishing

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• Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned.” The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust.

  Oswald Chambers

  Mistake, Mean, Self

  Oswald Chambers (2006). “My Utmost Fhh Grad Updated/E”, Barbour Publishing

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• You can believe a whole lot of foolish things, but God doesn't want you to do that. He wants your faith to rest upon the Word of God.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Believe, Want, Word Of God

  J. Vernon McGee (1983). “1 Corinthians Through Revelation”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A son is a promise that time makes to a man,the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and that person he loves best in the world will misunderstand him.

  Ian Caldwell

  Father, Son, Love Is

  Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com

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• Go home and say to yourself, ‘I am a wayward, foolish child. But He loves me! I have disobeyed and grieved Him ten thousand times. But He loves me! I have lost faith in some of my dearest friends and am very desolate. But He loves me! I do not love Him, I am even angry with Him! But He loves me!

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Children, Home, Lost

  Elizabeth Prentiss (1876). “Stepping Heavenward, and Aunt Jane's hero”, p.32

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• This is a massive world, I think, and in each centimeter of it, a different drama unfolds every second of the day. But we live on as if the next moment in our lives will be no different than the last. How foolish we all are.

  Mahbod Seraji

  Drama, Thinking, Different

  Mahbod Seraji (2009). “Rooftops of Tehran: A Novel”, p.103, Penguin

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• Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

  Stephen Fry

  Failing

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.54, The Overlook Press

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• Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for we are their children.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Children, Sun

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• You see, when you're young and foolish it doesn't matter where you may be, you always think that you'll be happier somewhere else.

  Felix Salten

  Thinking, Somewhere Else, Matter

  Felix Salten, Richard Cowdrey, Barthold Fles, R. Sudgen Tilley (2014). “Bambi's Children: The Story of a Forest Family”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• The (stock) market is there only as a reference point to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we invest in stocks, we invest in businesses.

  Warren Buffett

  Offering, Ifs

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• No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Men, Hands

  On Oliver Goldsmith, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 29 (1780).

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• Few things are as foolish as hoping old behaviors will somehow present new results.

  Robin Sharma

  Behavior, Results

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Mar 20, 2014

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• I am a hopeless romantic. A silly, ridiculous, foolish romantic. I live in a fantasy land. I need to get real. And now, for the first time, I want to get real. I want a real relationship with a real man in the real world–-with all the real problems, faults, and whatever comes with it.

  Alexandra Potter

  Real, Silly, Men

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• People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.

  Cynthia Voigt

  People

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• Foolish, selfish people are always thinking of themselves and the result is always negative. Wise persons think of others, helping them as much as they can, and the result is happiness. Love and compassion are beneficial both for you and others. Through your kindness to others, your mind and heart will open to peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Wise, Kindness, Selfish

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2006). “How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• How immense God is, that He is able to sweep into His purposes even foolish requests and bad motivations.

  Alistair Begg

  Motivation, Purpose, Able

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• Mr. Spock : 'I began to study human behavior from an alien perspective, thinking, humans are interesting, sad, foolish, but worthy of study.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Thinking, Interesting, Perspective

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