A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

—Benjamin Franklin

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About Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath active as a physicist, philosopher, statesman and inventor who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the first...

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He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

—Benjamin Franklin

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

—Benjamin Franklin

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

—Benjamin Franklin

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

—Benjamin Franklin

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

—Benjamin Franklin

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I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Education directs all our attention towards knowledge and attaches no importance to understanding. Exposing children to this kind of influence means that they reach adult life having lost themselves, being entirely dependent upon external things — possessions, the opinions of other people, appearances, and so on.

—John G. Bennett

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I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

—Bill Watterson

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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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