Benjamin Franklin Quotes

I've never been one to bet on the weather.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

I began as a weatherman and I learned very quickly I wasn't very good at it.

One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.

It’s very hard to predict the weather. Predicting human affairs is very difficult.

Among all of our uncertainties weather is the most basic. We can’t live without it and we can’t control it.

The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Any 6 year old’s hindsight is better than a President’s foresight.

The weather is the weather. You have to deal with whatever is out there.

In Finland and the U.K. you can't predict the weather.

Do you think it will rain? Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man? No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

The best vision is insight.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.