Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki

It's always better to be wise than to be smart.

There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you savagely. What a blessing such an irritating critic will be to a wise man, what an intolerable nuisance to a fool!

The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.

Don't suffer fools or you'll become one.

Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.

None is so wise, but the foole overtakes him.

The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.