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Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) was one of the founders of the United States, and also a printer, inventor and scientist. Alongside political work he experimented with electricity, founded the first public library in America, and for years published Poor Richard's Almanack, a collection of practical advice and sayings that passed into everyday speech.
About this theme: Wisdom
In the Western tradition wisdom is almost always defined by what it is not. Socrates is famous for claiming to know that he knew nothing; that was not modesty but method. Knowledge is a set of facts, wisdom is knowing what to do with them — and, more often, knowing when there are not enough of them.
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- Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small.— Lao Tzu
- Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.— Arthur Schopenhauer
- He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.— Lao Tzu
- Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.— Baruch Spinoza
- Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.— Albert Einstein