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
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.
I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.
To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.
Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
The general policy of the past has been to drive, but the era of force must give way to that of knowledge, and the policy of the future will be to teach and to lead, to the advantage of all concerned. Henry Gantt If a man empties his purse into his head no man can take it from him. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
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 anybody may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country!
There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.
A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds/ If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.
When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue