Quotes About Heedlessness

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

no man is more dangerous than an ignorant one with zeal.

THE END IS NOT NEAR IT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED WE JUST DIDN'T CARE

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.

Was this how a mutiny was sparked? In a moment of heedlessness, so that one became a stranger to the person one had been a moment before? Or was it the other way around? That this was when one recognized the stranger that one had always been to oneself; that all one's loyalties and beliefs had been misplaced?

They never listened until it was too late, and then only with stern forbearance and strong reminders of what might have been—had things been as they were perceived to be, which they were not.

The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care.

Too many care too little about too much.

Men are as liable to pursue their own ruin as their own advantage. In

A fool is someone who ignores warning signs

Nothing vexes me so much in stupidity as the fact that it is better pleased with itself than any reason can reasonably be. It is unfortunate that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and trust yourself, and always sends you away discontented and diffident, whereas opinionativeness and heedlessness fill their hosts with rejoicing and assurance.

In laxity there is chaos and heedlessness as well as carelessness, and therefore the flow of energy is erratic. In relaxation there is careful adjustment, and hence energy is rhythmic.

By thus rending the veil of monotony and showing that everything is in constant need of and obedient to His Lordship, He dispels heedlessness and turns humanity and jinn from (natural) causes to Himself as the Creator of causes. This basic principle is evident in the Qur'anic explanations.

I never ever take into consideration the consequences of my actions until it's too late.

A shithead's a guy who sees a pile of shit on the ground, knows it's shit, but steps in it anyway. Go play with your fucking shark, shithead.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.

Stupid people are dangerous

God is never absent so He need not be "summoned", nor do we possess the power to summon Him; the thing in need of summoning, and of redemption from ghaflah ("heedlessness") is the subtle spiritual attention of the Sufi to His Grace and His Presence.

This is what it leads to! This is what it leads to if you let your attention wander for a moment!

But this lump does not absolve me, because I got it through heedlessness, not though courage. I run my tongue over my lip and what do I do? I write. But bad literature brings no redemption.

Who is a fool? He that rashly is carried hither and thither with every motion, that considereth nothing, regardeth nothing, nor suffereth himself to be corrected and warned of his evil doing; but headlong runneth as he began, forcing not whether he sink or swim, or what becometh of him; and who, as he knoweth not the word of God, so he passeth not on it.

The ultimate trauma of heedlessness, then, is not seeing reality as it truly is. It is choosing a way of living that allows divine signs to be left unnoticed.

There, he had learnt to distinguish between the steadiness of principle and the obstinacy of self-will, between the darings of heedlessness and the resolution of a collected mind.