"A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
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“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.”
“If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.”
“I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.”
More on Knowledge
“Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor and traveller, the anatomist, chemist, astronomer, geologist, phrenologist, spiritualist, mathematician, historian and lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem.”
“The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.”
“'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'”