Benjamin Franklin Quotes

 

Benjamin Franklin Quotes

1.We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

2.Common sense without education is better than education without common sense.

3.The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.

 

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.

4.This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.

 

5. It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

6. There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

 

7. When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, until it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

8. When you are down to nothing, God is up to something. The faithful see the invisible, believe the incredible and then receive the impossible.

Where liberty dwells there is my country.

9. Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

10. Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

11. Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!

12. Little minds think and talk about people.

Average minds think and talk about things and actions.

Great minds think and talk about ideas.

13. Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

14Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

15. Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.

16. The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

17. Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.ecurity without liberty is called prison.

18. The world is run by the people who show up.

19. I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything

else.

2o. Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

21. The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

22. Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

23. I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. [...] I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created; and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous.

24. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

With affection,

Ruben