Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
Autobiographer
Chess Player
Designer
Dilettante
Diplomat
Economist
Editor
Freemason
Inventor
Journalist
Librarian
Musician
Physicist
Boston
Massachusetts
Silence Dogood
Ben Franklin
The First American
Franklin
Poor Richard
Knowledge
Ignorant
Born
Silly
Hard
Remain
Must
Ignorance
Stupid
Work
Learning
Mind
Education
Politics
Stupidity
More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business.
Benjamin Franklin
Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're free to it.
Benjamin Franklin
The exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly.
Benjamin Franklin
Opportunity is the great bawd.
Benjamin Franklin
Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.
Benjamin Franklin
Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.
Benjamin Franklin
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Benjamin Franklin
And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?
Benjamin Franklin
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.
Benjamin Franklin
You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion
Benjamin Franklin
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Benjamin Franklin
The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.
Benjamin Franklin
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Benjamin Franklin
Don't cry over spilled milk
Benjamin Franklin
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
Benjamin Franklin
If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one
Benjamin Franklin
Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.
Benjamin Franklin
Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.
Benjamin Franklin
I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.
Benjamin Franklin
Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.
Benjamin Franklin
