Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Wisdom

• The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Honesty, Integrity

  "Gleanings among the Sheaves, The First Lesson", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 878-82, 1922.

• Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

• 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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Relationship, Uplifting

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living”, p.1, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1746

• A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Wisdom, Educational

• A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Wisdom, Freedom

• 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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, Powerful

  Benjamin Franklin (193?). “The life and letters”

• 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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Hurt, Freedom

  Andrew M. Allison, Willard Cleon Skousen, M. Richard Maxfield, Benjamin Franklin (1982). “The Real Benjamin Franklin”

• Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Leadership, Wise

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Courier Corporation

• A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

• Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Freedom, Patriotic

  Benjamin Franklin (2016). “Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: new annotated edition”, p.28, MarcoPolo

• God helps them that help themselves.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.236

• Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Wise

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.66, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.62, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

• 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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Hypocrite, Heart

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.82, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

• Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, Hypocrite

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living”, p.46, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, Humility

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.6, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• The doors of wisdom are never shut.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Learning

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.105, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• 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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Selfish, Passion

  On the Constitution (1787)

• A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, Horse

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.73, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Moderation in all things - including moderation.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Drug, Moderation

• Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hope, Wisdom, Integrity

  Benjamin Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ..., 1”, p.129

• Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Men, Bags

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.11

• God helps those who help themselves.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Success, Bible, God

  Jack Vincent, Benjamin Franklin (2010). “Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth”, p.29, The Way to Wealth

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