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
Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty
If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes.
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.
I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.
There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
If you want to be rich, think of the savings and get them.
Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.
O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?
Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach.
The foundation of all happiness in thinking rightly.