A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.

Benjamin Franklin

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Believe Half Hear None See

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Benjamin Franklin
American - Politician
January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

Benjamin Franklin said it best, 'Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.'

Michael Muhney

Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.

Chris Daughtry

Believe none of what you hear...and even less of what you see...this is what we`ll be.

Andy Biersack

Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.

Charles Spurgeon

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Edgar Allan Poe

Don't believe everything you hear, don't believe everything you read and only believe half of what you see

DMX

I don't believe the half I hear, Nor the quarter of what I see! But I have one faith, sublime and true, That nothing can shake or slay; Each spring I firmly believe anew All the seed catalogues say!

Carolyn Wells

I think Abraham Lincoln said believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see.

Mike Pence

But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.

Lord Byron

There is none of that feeling about art that you meet everywhere in Europe. There you will hear people say, 'Oh, you must see such-and-such a statue at 4 o'clock in the afternoon; then the light is beautiful,' or, 'See this monument in the early morning; the light is best for it then.' Do you ever hear anything like that from an American?

Gutzon Borglum

Smart leaders believe only half of what they hear. Discerning leaders know which have to believe.

John C. Maxwell

I actually spoke to one of the heads of a studio, and he said I confuse middle America. Basically, when they see a black person, they see athlete, they see rapper, or they see criminal or something like that. And then when they hear a British accent, they hear posh, so they hear lawyer or doctor.

Ricky Whittle

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

Matthew Henry

If you can't see that the glass is half full, you can never be a socialist. You have to believe in the goodness of the majority of people to be a socialist. You have to believe that if the majority of people had their way, they would make a society that would be fair for everyone. If you don't believe that, and if you think that the glass is always half empty, then you're never going to have that sensibility.

Billy Bragg

what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.