Mind Quotes by 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

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

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Thomas Jefferson

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

— Thomas Jefferson

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

— Thomas Jefferson

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

— Thomas Jefferson

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

— Thomas Jefferson

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

— Thomas Jefferson

The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity…

— Thomas Jefferson

Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural…

— Thomas Jefferson

With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind…

— Thomas Jefferson

life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body…

— 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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape…

— Thomas Jefferson

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have…

— Thomas Jefferson

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise…

— Thomas Jefferson

I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man", "I have…

— Thomas Jefferson

Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has…

— Thomas Jefferson

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds…

— Thomas Jefferson

Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the…

— 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

In the constitution of Spain as proposed by the late Cortes, there was a principle entirely new to me:... that no person…

— Thomas Jefferson

The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry…

— 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

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to…

— Thomas Jefferson

Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the…

— Thomas Jefferson