Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Wisdom
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When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.
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Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
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Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.
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God helps those who help themselves.
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A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.
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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
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Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.
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The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.
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After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.
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Moderation in all things - including moderation.
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Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.
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Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
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The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.
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Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
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Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
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Honesty is the best policy.
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Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.
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Clean your finger before you point at my spots.
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A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.
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It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth
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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.
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Better slip with foot than tongue.
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Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended
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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
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Benjamin Franklin
- Born: January 17, 1706
- Died: April 17, 1790
- Occupation: Founding Father of the United States