Psychology Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

A mind always employed is always happy.

— Thomas Jefferson

Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind

— Thomas Jefferson

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

— Thomas Jefferson

A strong body makes the mind strong.

— Thomas Jefferson

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

— Thomas Jefferson

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

— Thomas Jefferson

If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.

— Thomas Jefferson

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

— Thomas Jefferson

Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends

— Thomas Jefferson

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

— Thomas Jefferson

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

— Thomas Jefferson

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

— Thomas Jefferson

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

— Thomas Jefferson

Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother…

— Thomas Jefferson

I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.

— Thomas Jefferson

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

— Thomas Jefferson

“This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth…

— Thomas Jefferson

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes…

— Thomas Jefferson

If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should…

— Thomas Jefferson

In a virtuous and free state, no rewards can be so pleasing to sensible minds, as those which include the approbation of…

— Thomas Jefferson

My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and…

— Thomas Jefferson

Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is…

— Thomas Jefferson

I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points…

— Thomas Jefferson

The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are…

— Thomas Jefferson

The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur…

— Thomas Jefferson

Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan…

— Thomas Jefferson

The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of…

— Thomas Jefferson

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with…

— Thomas Jefferson

The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it…

— Thomas Jefferson

Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and,…

— Thomas Jefferson

I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism which his biographers [Gospels] father on…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes…

— Thomas Jefferson

The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.

— Thomas Jefferson

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

— Thomas Jefferson