Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
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
Long
Found
Instance
Thinking
Thought
Otherwise
Infallibility
Change
Constitution
Fuller
Better
Lived
Instances
Right
Subjects
Obliged
Many
Information
Consideration
Important
Liberty
Experienced
Even
Opinion
Opinions
More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.
Benjamin Franklin
Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure the rest always say and do as they ought.
Benjamin Franklin
Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.
Benjamin Franklin
By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.
Benjamin Franklin
Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid.
Benjamin Franklin
You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
Benjamin Franklin
I am in the prime of senility.
Benjamin Franklin
He's gone, and forgot nothing but to say farewell to his creditors
Benjamin Franklin
Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.
Benjamin Franklin
What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.
Benjamin Franklin
The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty
Benjamin Franklin
Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure nothing more bondage than too much liberty.
Benjamin Franklin
Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.
Benjamin Franklin
Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse.
Benjamin Franklin
Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them.
Benjamin Franklin
Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
Benjamin Franklin
They who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing.
Benjamin Franklin
Beware the hobby that eats.
Benjamin Franklin
Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.
Benjamin Franklin
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Benjamin Franklin
