Benjamin Franklin Quotes about Integrity
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
"Gleanings among the Sheaves, The First Lesson", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 878-82, 1922.
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Benjamin Franklin (1928). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Almanacks of 1733, 1749, 1756, 1757, 1758, First Written Under the Name of Richard Saunders”
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
Benjamin Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ..., 1”, p.129
Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings WELD (1849). “Benjamin Franklin: his Autobiography, with a narrative of his public life and services by H. H. Weld”, p.98
