Source: The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Polymaths Quotes
Browse 48 quotes about Polymaths.
Polymaths Quotes
“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.”
Source: The Posthumous and Other Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818
“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.”
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.”
Source: The Life and Essays of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Carefully Collected from His Own Papers, Containing All His Miscellaneous Pieces
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”
Source: Essays and Letters
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
“Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.”
“Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
Source: The Poet at the Breakfast Table
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
Source: A Mortal Antipathy
“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
“The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.”
Source: On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”
Source: The beauties of nature and the wonders of the world we live in
“Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.”
“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
Source: Notebooks
“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes
“What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art”
Source: Da Vinci Notebooks
“Wisdom is the daughter of experience”
Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:
“Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.”
Source: Notebooks
Source: Personal Knowledge
“Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.”
“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.”
“I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.”
“We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.”
“Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.”
Source: Poems