Wisdom Quote by Benjamin Franklin — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”

“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.”

“It's better to swim in the sea below”

“Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.”

“Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.”

“We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.”

“We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity.”

“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”

“A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.”

“Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know.”

“I like places like this," he announced.”