Benjamin Franklin Quotes

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Education is more valuable than money. Money can be taken away from you. Education cannot be.

It's really not about the money. It's just about educating yourself.

Education is the best provision for old age.

We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

The most important thing for my father was learning. Because nobody can take that away from you.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

The substitute for knowledge is money.

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

Education is the first step on the ladder to economic empowerment.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere

Money can be taken away from you, by the IRS or by pistol. That's why I always measure riches in terms of wisdom. No one can ever take from you what you know.

Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. don't work for money. Work for knowledge.

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

All experience is good experience.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

I'm worth far too much money. I don't need anybody's money.

Experience is a great teacher.