“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
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Benjamin Franklin
1706–1790112 quotes
was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, forger and political philosopher. Among the leading intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, a drafter and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the first United States Postmaster General.
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“Tell me and I forget; teach me and I may remember; involve me and I learn.”
“For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.”
“I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.”
“Applause waits on success.”
“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.”
“To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.”
“Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.”
“The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.”
“Hunger is the best pickle.”
“Fatigue is the best pillow.”
“The first mistake in public business is the going into it.”
“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.”
“God helps those who help themselves.”
“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”
“Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.”
“I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.”
“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
“The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.”
“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”
“When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.”