"If you wish information and improvement from the……" — Benjamin Franklin
"If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error."
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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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I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the…
— Peter Abelard
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I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.
— William Shakespeare
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Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
— Isaac Watts
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The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.
— Henry Wotton
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
— George Eliot
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Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion;…
— Christopher Hitchens
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A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest…
— Stephen Fry
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The angels glorify; men scrutinize: angels raise their voices in praise; men in disputation: they conceal their faces with their…
— John Chrysostom
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