A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
John Updike

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
Sydney J. Harris

Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.
Sun Myung Moon

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.
Diane Ravitch

An actor would be foolish to do something that might hold up the picture, or more importantly incapacitate him. If an actor does do a stunt he needs to make sure a stunt man stands by to see that it's done correctly.
Glenn Ford

And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.
Mac Thornberry

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
Demosthenes

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.
George Saintsbury

Dare to wear the foolish clown face.
Frank Sinatra

Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache.
Lee Tergesen

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Karl Kraus

Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
Charles Baudelaire

Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.
William John Wills

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
Thomas B. Macaulay