Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Knowledge

• If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

• We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Work, Stupid

• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Encouraging, Education, Money

  Jack Vincent, Benjamin Franklin (2010). “Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth”, p.91, The Way to Wealth

• Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Reading, Knowledge

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

• To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Knowledge, Light, Proud

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.263, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Knowledge, Poor Richard

• There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Knowledge, Absurd, Fine

• 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.'

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Country, Knowledge

  Benjamin Franklin's letter to David Hartley (December 4, 1789) as quoted in "The Writings of Benjamin Franklin," Volume 10 (p. 72) edited by Albert H. Smyth, 1907.

• Some men grow mad by studying much to know,
  But who grows mad by studying good to grow.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.18, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Weed, Knowledge, Science

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.22, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

• 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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.24, Nayika Publishing

• 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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Learning, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Benjamin Franklin, Albert H. Smyth (1905). “Writings, Collected and Ed. with a Life and Introd”

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