Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Topics: Self Awareness Quotes

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

A small leak can sink a great ship.

A small leak can sink a great ship.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough...

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough...

He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books.

He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books.

If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either...

If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either...

When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part...

When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part...

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven

Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having...

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having...

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Death takes no bribes.

Death takes no bribes.

It is remarkable that soldiers by profession, men truly and unquestionably brave, seldom advise war...

It is remarkable that soldiers by profession, men truly and unquestionably brave, seldom advise war...

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you...

If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you...

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it...

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it...