Psychology Quotes by 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

Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind

— Thomas Jefferson

A mind always employed is always happy.

— Thomas Jefferson

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

— Thomas Jefferson

If the body be feeble, the mind will not be 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— 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

I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort…

— 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

Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best.…

— Thomas Jefferson

Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty… Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now…

— Thomas Jefferson

From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which…

— Thomas Jefferson

I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and…

— Thomas Jefferson

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing…

— Thomas Jefferson

“I write nothing for publication, and last of all things should it be on the subject of religion. On the dogmas of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“When we see religion split into so many thousand of sects, and I may say Christianity itself divided into its thousands also,…

— Thomas Jefferson

The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject…

— Thomas Jefferson

...It is impossible, I say, for the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design, cause, and effect…

— Thomas Jefferson

No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

“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

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

— 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