A Quote by Baron de Montesquieu

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

Baron de Montesquieu

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Baron de Montesquieu
French - Author
January 18, 1689 - February 10, 1755

If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised, and aid the neighbor in his need.

Martin Luther

We must always look after our friends, even when they are foolish. Especially when they are foolish.

Richard Kadrey

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.

Michael Ende

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Charles Caleb Colton

To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense

Morton Blackwell

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

Rumi

Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.

Allan Lokos

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

Finley Peter Dunne

It is important that when pursing our own self-interest we should be 'wise selfish' and not 'foolish selfish'. Being foolish selfish means pursuing our own interests in a narrow, shortsighted way. Being wise selfish means taking a broader view and recognizing that our own long-term individual interest lies in the welfare of everyone. Being wise selfish means being compassionate.

Dalai Lama

The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

Edmund Burke

Let the poet dream his dreams. Yet, the poet must look at the world; must enter into other men's lives; must look at the earth and the sky, must examine the dust in the street; must walk through the world and his mirror.

William Baziotes

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

Montesquieu

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Montesquieu

Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.' Eragon said. Why, little one, you just said something wise!'Saphira teased.