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“Franklin was worried that his fondness for conversation and eagerness to impress made him prone to “prattling, punning and joking, which only made me acceptable to trifling company.” Knowledge, he realized, “was obtained rather by the use of the ear than of the tongue.” So in the Junto, he began to work on his use of silence and gentle dialogue.”
― Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
― Aldous Huxley

“When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting him.”
― Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

“Knowledge, he realized, “was obtained rather by the use of the ear than of the tongue.”
― Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life