Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Knowledge
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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.
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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
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Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.
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To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.
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There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.
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A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.
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Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
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God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.
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Benjamin Franklin
- Born: January 17, 1706
- Died: April 17, 1790
- Occupation: Founding Father of the United States