Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklinwas one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He facilitated many civic organizations, including...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth17 January 1706
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Benjamin Franklin quotes about
So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.
Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.
Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.
Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.
This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour. (Autobiography, 1771)
It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on
Eat to live, don't live to eat.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Half-wits talk much, but say little.
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
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 anybody may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country!
O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.
The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.