I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all - and it is our duty to protect and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
...It is impossible, I say, for the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design, cause, and effect… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man", "I have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism which his biographers [Gospels] father on… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
![“The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ce9/thomas-jefferson-43_altars_the-clergy-believe-that-any-portion-of-p_1301853.jpg)
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