The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics? — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Experience is a dear teacher, and only fools will learn from no other. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with the principal historical… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. When it comes to investing, nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. Do… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“You tell me, and I forget You teach me, and I remember You involve me, and I learn” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
