--- title: "4 Talents Quotes By Thomas Jefferson" description: "4 Talents quotes by Thomas Jefferson. Plus more from Thomas Jefferson and more Talents sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/952/thomas-jefferson-43_class_by-selecting-the-youths-of-genius-from-a_932967.jpg" --- > [ By... \[selecting\] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/by-selecting-the-youths-of-genius-from-among-the-classes-of-the-poor/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/952/thomas-jefferson-43_class_by-selecting-the-youths-of-genius-from-a_932967.jpg) > [To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/to-all-of-which-is-added-a-selection-from-the-elementary-schools-of/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/072/thomas-jefferson-43_action_to-all-of-which-is-added-a-selection-fro_1410633.jpg) > [The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-most-valuable-of-all-talents-is-never-using-two-words-when-one/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59b/thomas-jefferson-43_language_the-most-valuable-of-all-talents-is-neve_2871500.jpg) > [The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-most-valuable-of-all-talents-is-that-of-never-using-two-words/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/529/thomas-jefferson-43_inspirational_the-most-valuable-of-all-talents-is-that_2897202.jpg) ## Other authors on Talents - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sunday-adelaja-87912.jpg) Sunday Adelaja 70 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/talents/sunday-adelaja/) - [Israelmore Ayivor 32 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/talents/israelmore-ayivor/) - [Lailah Gifty Akita 19 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/talents/lailah-gifty-akita/) - [Shannon L. Alder 14 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/talents/shannon-l-alder/) - [Enock Maregesi 9 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/talents/enock-maregesi/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-o-clifton-30033.jpg) Donald O. Clifton 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/talents/donald-o-clifton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-terry-mark-89514.jpg) Terry Mark 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/talents/terry-mark/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-ken-robinson-56362.jpg) Ken Robinson 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/talents/ken-robinson/) - [Craig D. Lounsbrough 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/talents/craig-d-lounsbrough/) - [Michael Bassey Johnson 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/talents/michael-bassey-johnson/) ## More by Thomas Jefferson > [A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/a-man-has-a-right-to-use-a-saw-an-axe-a-plane-separately-may-he-not/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/believing-with-you-that-religion-is-a-matter-which-lies-solely/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [ \[States and the Federal government are\] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/states-and-the-federal-government-are-coordinate-departments-of-one/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-am-for-freedom-of-religion-and-against-all-maneuvers-to-bring-about/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/single-acts-of-tyranny-may-be-ascribed-to-the-accidental-opinion-of-a/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/perceiving-the-order-of-nature-to-be-that-individual-happiness-shall/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/free-government-is-founded-in-jealousy-and-not-in-confidence-it-is/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/though-you-cannot-see-when-you-take-one-step-what-will-be-the-next/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/a-well-informed-citizenry-is-the-best-defense-against-tyranny/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-two-principles-on-which-our-conduct-towards-the-indians-should-be/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/knowledge-is-power-knowled-ge-is-safety-knowle-dge-is-happiness/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/there-is-an-artificial-aristocracy-founded-on-wealth-and-birth/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/nothing-but-free-argument-raillery-and-even-ridicule-will-preserve/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/when-the-people-are-afraid-of-the-government-that-s-tyranny-but-when/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) > [“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/we-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evident-that-all-men-are-created/) [Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/talents/thomas-jefferson/#itemlist", "name": "4 Talents Quotes By Thomas Jefferson", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Jefferson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/by-selecting-the-youths-of-genius-from-among-the-classes-of-the-poor/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/952/thomas-jefferson-43_class_by-selecting-the-youths-of-genius-from-a_932967.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/952/thomas-jefferson-43_class_by-selecting-the-youths-of-genius-from-a_932967.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/952/thomas-jefferson-43_class_by-selecting-the-youths-of-genius-from-a_932967.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of…” — Thomas Jefferson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the college and university. The object is to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country, for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind, which, in proportion to our population, shall be double or treble of what it is in most countries.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Jefferson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/to-all-of-which-is-added-a-selection-from-the-elementary-schools-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/072/thomas-jefferson-43_action_to-all-of-which-is-added-a-selection-fro_1410633.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/072/thomas-jefferson-43_action_to-all-of-which-is-added-a-selection-fro_1410633.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/072/thomas-jefferson-43_action_to-all-of-which-is-added-a-selection-fro_1410633.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius…” — Thomas Jefferson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Jefferson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-most-valuable-of-all-talents-is-never-using-two-words-when-one/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59b/thomas-jefferson-43_language_the-most-valuable-of-all-talents-is-neve_2871500.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59b/thomas-jefferson-43_language_the-most-valuable-of-all-talents-is-neve_2871500.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59b/thomas-jefferson-43_language_the-most-valuable-of-all-talents-is-neve_2871500.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.” — Thomas Jefferson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Jefferson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-most-valuable-of-all-talents-is-that-of-never-using-two-words/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/529/thomas-jefferson-43_inspirational_the-most-valuable-of-all-talents-is-that_2897202.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/529/thomas-jefferson-43_inspirational_the-most-valuable-of-all-talents-is-that_2897202.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/529/thomas-jefferson-43_inspirational_the-most-valuable-of-all-talents-is-that_2897202.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.” — Thomas Jefferson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/talents/thomas-jefferson/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/talents/thomas-jefferson/", "name": "Talents Quotes by Thomas Jefferson", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/talents/thomas-jefferson/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/952/thomas-jefferson-43_class_by-selecting-the-youths-of-genius-from-a_932967.jpg" }, "description": "4 Talents quotes by Thomas Jefferson. Plus more from Thomas Jefferson and more Talents sayings from other authors.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/talents/thomas-jefferson/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/talents/thomas-jefferson/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Talents", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/talents/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "name": "Thomas Jefferson", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/talents/thomas-jefferson/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```