Benjamin Franklin on Knowledge
Browse 11 quotations attributed to Benjamin Franklin, catalogued under knowledge, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Benjamin Franklin, entry #175863: "Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows."
Attributed to Benjamin Franklin, entry #203348: "Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years."
11 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin on Knowledge
"Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows."
"Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years."
"Text of Franklin's "Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania"
"The first man put at the helm will be a good one. No body knows what sort may come afterwards. The Executive will be always increasing here, as elsewhere, till it ends in a Monarchy."
"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved; never, that I know of, controverted."
":Do not do what you would not have known."
":Men and Melons are hard to know."
"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.'"
"Marriage is the proper Remedy. It is the most natural State of Man and therefore the State in which you are most likely to find solid Happiness... hen Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good... ou should prefer old Women to young ones."
"This Library afforded me the Means of Improvement by constant Study, for which I set apart an Hour or two each Day; and thus repair'd in some Degree the Loss of the Learned Education my Father once intended for me. Reading was the only Amusement I allow'd myself. I spent no time in Taverns, Games, or Frolics of any kind. And my Industry in my Business continu'd as indefatigable as it was necessary."
"Today a man owns a jackass worth fifty dollars and he is entitled to vote; but before the next election the jackass dies. The man in the mean time has become more experienced, his knowledge of the principles of government, and his acquaintance with mankind, are more extensive, and he is therefore better qualified to make a proper selection of rulers -- but the jackass is dead and the man cannot vote. Now gentlemen, pray inform me, in whom is the right of suffrage? In the man or in the jackass?"