Quotes by

Benjamin Franklin

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. – Benjamin Franklin

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. – Benjamin Franklin

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. – Benjamin Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. – Benjamin Franklin

Genius without education is like silver in the mine. – Benjamin Franklin

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. – Benjamin Franklin

I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand. – Benjamin Franklin

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. – Benjamin Franklin

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. – Benjamin Franklin

The first mistake in public business is the going into it. – Benjamin Franklin

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. – Benjamin Franklin

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. – Benjamin Franklin

Hunger is the best pickle. – Benjamin Franklin

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. – Benjamin Franklin

Honesty is the best policy. – Benjamin Franklin

Beauty and folly are old companions. – Benjamin Franklin

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing. – Benjamin Franklin

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness. – Benjamin Franklin

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. – Benjamin Franklin

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. – Benjamin Franklin