We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
Jean de La Fontaine

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
Friedrich August von Hayek

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
Daniel Ellsberg

We're on our way to Greece, in the hands of a confused, foolish government. It's got to stop. It's got to stop.
Steve Wynn

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Anatole France

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

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
Nelson Mandela

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.
Kin Hubbard

Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
Alec Guinness

Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
Francis I

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
Hermann Hesse

You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.
Johnny Vegas

You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.
Tom Wilkinson

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night.
Paul Hogan