Benjamin Franklin:

Shrewdness can turn one penny into two, but wisdom can turn a horse into a boy.

— Benjamin Franklin Early Modern

Electricity experiments, founding father

From 'Poor Richard's Almanack' (lesser-known wisdom)

Unknown, likely 18th century

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"To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light."

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"What is wit, or wealth, or form, or learning, when compared with virtue?"

"A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one."

"Great talkers, little doers."