Benjamin Franklin Quotes

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.

A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

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

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Much learning does not teach sense.

A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

It's easy to be an educated fool.

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.