#foolish

Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive. ↗

— Criss Jami

#assertions #beautiful #correction #divinity #foolish

Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#foolish #strength #beauty

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance. ↗

— Paul David Tripp

#pride #change

Compromise is a stalling between two fools. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#foolishness #fools #humor #humor

If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#futility #shakespeare #shakespeare

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#foolish #little-minds #philosophers #philosophical

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. ↗

— Confucius

#other-people #journey

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again. ↗

— George W. Bush

#dumb #foolishness #fools #shame

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#fools #ideas #just

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly. ↗

— George Will

#behave #foolishly #freedom #freedom means #means