Benjamin Franklin on Wisdom
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Benjamin Franklin, catalogued under wisdom, with dates where available.
This page displays 3 quotations attributed to Benjamin Franklin and filed under "wisdom" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Benjamin Franklin, entry #103024: ": He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books."
Attributed to Benjamin Franklin, entry #38479: ":The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone."
3 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin on Wisdom
": He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books."
":The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone."
"I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise."