"You will observe with concern how long..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin
You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.
More by Benjamin Franklin
“My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.”
“Men and Melons are hard to know.”
“The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast”
More on Truth
“Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present - not where we wish we were, or where we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.”
“Men talk glibly enough about moonshine, as if they knew its qualities very well, and despised them; as owls might talk of sunshine,--none of your sunshine!--but this word commonly means merely something which they do not understand,--which they are abed and asleep to, however much it may be worth their while to be up and awake to it.”
“One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.”