Benjamin Franklin Wise Quotations

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Life with fools consists in drinking; with the wise man, thinking.

If what most men admire, they would despise, 'Twould look as if mankind were growing wise

That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for the well ordering and well-being of Society, and accordingly have been ever careful to encourage and protect the Ministers of it, paying them the highest publick Honours, that their Doctrines might thereby meet with the greater Respect among the common People.

I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state; more so than riches or arms.

The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends

Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." He planned his routine around waking up at 5 a.m. and asking himself "What good shall I do this day?

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.

The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.

Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed affronts, and the messengers punished as offenders, who will henceforth send petitions? And who will deliver them? Wise governments encouraged the airing of grievances, even those that were lightly founded Foolish governments did the opposite - to their peril. Where complaining is a crime, hope becomes despair.

God helps those who help themselves.

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, as might supply the succeeding Age with Men qualified to serve the Publick with Honour to themselves, and to their Country.

A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.

A man can be beautiful physically, mentally, or personality wise. True beauty, though, is in the spirit. A genuine man who understands right and wrong, with a strong sense of self is beautiful. A man who can be compassionate and caring, but firm and wise. Someone who can do the right thing no matter who's around to see it. Even if the deed is unseen and unrecognized. That is a beautiful man. One today is worth two tomorrows.

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince would make War or Peace, nor any General fight in Battle, in short, no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an Astrologer.

In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.

I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.

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

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise

Of learned Fools I have seen ten times ten, Of unlearned wise men I have seen a hundred

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart