Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.