Clever Quote by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

— Anonymous

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

— Anonymous

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

— Samuel Johnson

It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

— Francis Bacon

There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

— Margaret of Valois

Learning makes a man wise, but a fool is made all the more a fool by it.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Cleverness builds ever more elaborate structures of self-justification… But in the end you know what is and what is not right. All men do,…

— Mark Lawrence

To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.

— Baron de Montesquieu

A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

— Gautama Buddha

“Every fool’s greatest success is nothing but to dare to pretend to be clever because this trick works in some people!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol