Short Sighted Quotes

“To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In case you’re short on definitions, here’s one. Insanity: ‘Destroying the very things that sustain us.’ And if we’re so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it’s not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“One-day-at-a-time rationalism risks restricting its analysis to the immediate implications of each issue as it arises, missing the wider implications of a decision that may have merit as regards the issue immediately at hand, considered in isolation, but which can be disastrous in terms of the ignored longer-term repercussions.”
― Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society

“Who will be there to mentor those who follow us if we crawl into a dark place and hide, denying who and what we are/ How short-sighted and exceedingly selfish!”
― Christina Engela, Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul

“So study evermore is overshot.
While it doth study to have what it would,
It doth forget to do the thing it should;
And when it hath the thing it hunteth most,
’Tis won as towns with fire—so won, so lost.”
― William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost

“Our conviction that God made a mistake is shaped by our inability to see the utterly ingenious purpose that lays behind His design. And we don’t see that purpose because our focus is riveted on the effort to correct something that was never wrong.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The mark of a short-sighted goal is that it is solely designed to achieve whatever needs to be achieved as a means of achieving the goal after that. Therefore, its destination is the next step, not the next horizon.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Narrow mind leads to vacant marrow, Without expansion life is hollow.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“The depth of the hole that we’re in is too often based on the size of our shovel, the frequency with which we use it, and the fact that we’ve yet to discard it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Might I remind us that taking dirt out of the hole that we’re standing in and putting it back in that same hole both requires a similar degree of effort. But not digging it out in the first place may require the greatest effort of all.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Nickel-and-diming people can cost you a pretty penny.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide