Benjamin Franklin's Quotes

Benjamin Franklin's Quotes 258

Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

A place for everything everything in its place.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Money has never made man happy nor will it there is nothing in its nature...

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it....

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to...

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I...

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

A great empire like a great cake is most easily diminished at the edges.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon...

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe seldom executed.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that...

Each year one vicious habit discarded in time might make the worst of us good.

Speak ill of no man but speak all the good you know of everybody.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Do good to your friends to keep them to your enemies to win them.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

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