To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.