Benjamin Franklin Quotes about Learning

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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Benjamin Franklin

Inspirational, Learning, Ignorance

Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.39, Courier Corporation

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

Benjamin Franklin

Learning, Rich, Frugal

Benjamin Franklin, Henry Stueber (1815*). “The Life and Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin”, p.210

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Benjamin Franklin

Inspirational, Wisdom, Learning

Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.105, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Benjamin Franklin

Education, Learning, Knowledge

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

Benjamin Franklin

Learning, Skills, Decision

Benjamin Franklin (1914). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.34, Lulu.com

To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.

Benjamin Franklin

Learning, Ignorance, Knowledge

Benjamin Franklin, Albert H. Smyth (1905). “Writings, Collected and Ed. with a Life and Introd”