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Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Benjamin Franklin
Book, Reading, Knowledge
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

Benjamin Franklin
Knowledge, Light, Proud
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.263, Barnes & Noble Publishing

God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'

Benjamin Franklin
Love, Country, Knowledge
Benjamin Franklin's letter to David Hartley (December 4, 1789) as quoted in "The Writings of Benjamin Franklin," Volume 10 (p. 72) edited by Albert H. Smyth, 1907.

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.

Benjamin Franklin
Weed, Knowledge, Science
Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.22, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Benjamin Franklin
Knowledge, Poor Richard

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Benjamin Franklin
Education, Learning, Knowledge

There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.

Benjamin Franklin
Knowledge, Absurd, Fine

Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.

Benjamin Franklin
Knowledge, Science, Men
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.18, Barnes & Noble Publishing

I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.

Benjamin Franklin
Knowledge, Science, Men
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.24, Nayika Publishing

To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.

Benjamin Franklin
Learning, Ignorance, Knowledge
Benjamin Franklin, Albert H. Smyth (1905). “Writings, Collected and Ed. with a Life and Introd”

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