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
Most fools think they are only ignorant.
Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.
Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on
An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.
Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
Life with fools consists in drinking; with the wise man, thinking.
We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.
There is no man so bad, but he secretly respects the good.
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.