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Benjamin Franklin idézetek
Benjamin Franklin: Idézetek angolul
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn.”
There is no evidence that Franklin said this. Scholars believe the saying comes from the Xunzi.
Additional information may be read at the following websites:
http://dakinburdick.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/tell-me-and-i-forget/
http://www.quora.com/History/Where-and-when-did-Benjamin-Franklin-say-Tell-me-and-I-forget-teach-me-and-I-may-remember-involve-me-and-I-learn
http://gazettextra.com/weblogs/word-badger/2013/mar/24/whose-quote-really/
Misattributed
“Fish and visitors stink in three days.”
Adapted 16th century writer John Lyly's line http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/03/ben-franklins-best-epigrams/ found in Euphues – the Anatomy of Wit: Fish and guests in three days are stale. <br class="br">Attributed
"On Freedom of Speech and the Press", Pennsylvania Gazette (17 November 1737) http://books.google.de/books?id=HptPAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA431&dq=pillar. <br class="br">1720s
“Well done is better than well said.”
Poor Richard's Almanack (1737)
“A republic, if you can keep it.”
James McHenry diary entry on September 18,1787 https://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/files/2016/09/McHenry-Note.jpg, the day after the signing of the United States Constitution: "A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what we got a republic or a monarchy — A republic replied the Doctor if you can keep it." <br class="br">Attributed
