"A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than……" — Benjamin Franklin
"A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one."
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Benjamin Franklin
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1,166 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin has 1,166 quotes on this site.
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
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Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.
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Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we…
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Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of…
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[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution…
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It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped
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I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a…
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Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for…
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Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
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Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is…
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
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It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
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More Blockhead Quotes
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe…
— Giacomo Casanova
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He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he's a fool a fool who tries…
— Prince William
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We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an…
— H.G. Wells
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Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once…
— Friedrich Schiller
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his…
— Alexander Pope
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The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more…
— Oscar Wilde
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It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.
— Charles James
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I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB…
— Diablo Cody
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