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

“If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.”

“Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”

“Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.”

“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.”

“One today is worth two tomorrows.”

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

“Fear is a state of nervousness only fit for children”

“Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour.”

“Be like the ocean, stay deep, not everyone deserves to see what’s beneath your surface.”

“We do not engage in idle or intentional gossip which undermines someone else's integrity or which spreads the seeds of fear by talking unthinkingly about illness, disasters, and all the other fears which run rampant in the world.”

“If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is not possible because we are all “on our own journey,” then moral assessment becomes completely impossible or is speciesist. It is impossible because if we are all “on our own journey,” then there is nothing to say to the racist, sexist, anti-semite, homophobe, etc. If we say that those forms of discrimination are morally bad, but, with respect to animals, we are all “on our own journey” and we cannot make moral assessments about, for instance, dairy consumption, then we are simply being speciesist and not applying the same moral analysis to nonhumans that we apply to the human context.”