Thinking Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

— Benjamin Franklin

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent.

— Benjamin Franklin

But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength.

— Benjamin Franklin

Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog.

— Benjamin Franklin

Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.

— Benjamin Franklin

To cease to think creatively is to cease to live

— Benjamin Franklin

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.

— Benjamin Franklin

If you want to be rich, think of the savings and get them.

— Benjamin Franklin

O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use…

— Benjamin Franklin

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of…

— Benjamin Franklin

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

— Benjamin Franklin

Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

— Benjamin Franklin

Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about…

— Benjamin Franklin

Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.

— Benjamin Franklin

Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.

— Benjamin Franklin

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

— Benjamin Franklin

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of…

— Benjamin Franklin

If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect.…

— Benjamin Franklin

Ben Franklin was a little stout later in life and it was said that in Paris a young woman, tapping him on…

— Benjamin Franklin

I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in…

— Benjamin Franklin

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last…

— Benjamin Franklin

I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him…

— Benjamin Franklin

I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations…

— Benjamin Franklin

I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for…

— Benjamin Franklin

As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as…

— Benjamin Franklin

In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General…

— Benjamin Franklin

Do you sincerely declare that you love mankind in general, of what profession or religion soever? Do you think any person ought…

— Benjamin Franklin

And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your…

— Benjamin Franklin

1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution...…

— Benjamin Franklin

She that paints her Face, thinks of her Tail.

— Benjamin Franklin

'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

— Benjamin Franklin

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

— Benjamin Franklin

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

— Benjamin Franklin

The foundation of all happiness in thinking rightly.

— Benjamin Franklin

Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

— Benjamin Franklin

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war,…

— Benjamin Franklin

Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach.

— Benjamin Franklin

I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.

— Benjamin Franklin

If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal…

— Benjamin Franklin

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man…

— Benjamin Franklin