"I say it is impossible that so..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.
Image for the quote by Benjamin Franklin: I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, shou...

More by Benjamin Franklin

“The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Eat what you like, but dress for other people.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”
— Benjamin Franklin

More on Innovation

“You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules”
— Joseph Campbell
“When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.”
— Steve Jobs

More on Progress

“Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.”
— Ronald Reagan
“A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one's feet.”
— Lao Tzu
“Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult.”
— Thomas Aquinas