#foolish

Foolish many said; foolish many, many believed. ↗

— Thomas Vernor Smith

#foolish #many #said

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. ↗

— Alexander Meiklejohn

#arising #dangers #foolish #freedom #gains

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

The biggest fool is one who minds the business of others rather than minding his very own ↗

— Amit Abraham

#foolishness #nose-poking #business

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

— Paul David Tripp

#pride #change

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#foolishness #youth #experience

You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#being-wise #decision-making #fools #friendship #rasheed-ogunlaru-quotes

In a second or two he would get up and join her in the shower he could hear running--consolidate his place with some very passionate seed-sowing and at the same time he would make Nell fall in love with him again. ↗

— Michelle Reid

#stupid-male #virgin-wife #virginity #love

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#bertrand #evidence #foolish #majority #opinion