Wisdom Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

— Thomas Jefferson

“No people who are ignorant can be truly free.”

— Thomas Jefferson

If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.

— Thomas Jefferson

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. --Thomas Jefferson

— Thomas Jefferson

“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”

— Thomas Jefferson

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

— Thomas Jefferson

The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one.

— Thomas Jefferson

“This is a subject with which wisdom and patriotism should be occupied.”

— Thomas Jefferson

The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.

— Thomas Jefferson

Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just…

— Thomas Jefferson

A community of small farmers... land property owners, will be the only assurance that the freedom our republic offers will be guaranteed…

— Thomas Jefferson

Inspirational Quotes on: Honesty, Simplicity, Secret, Universe, Modesty, Peace Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

— Thomas Jefferson

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

— Thomas Jefferson

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one…

— Thomas Jefferson

I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom…

— Thomas Jefferson

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it…

— Thomas Jefferson

We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within…

— Thomas Jefferson

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not…

— Thomas Jefferson

Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less…

— Thomas Jefferson

The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen…

— Thomas Jefferson

If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its…

— 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

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their…

— Thomas Jefferson

We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have…

— Thomas Jefferson

I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country.…

— Thomas Jefferson

What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state 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 reflections that the boys of this age are to be the men of the next; that they should be prepared to…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time…

— Thomas Jefferson

The banks themselves were doing business on capitals three-fourths of which were fictitious. This fictitious capital... is now to be lost, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

The tumults in America I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not.…

— Thomas Jefferson

“I wish that all nations may recover and retain their independence; that those which are overgrown may not advance beyond safe measures…

— Thomas Jefferson

Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.

— Thomas Jefferson

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.

— Thomas Jefferson

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what…

— Thomas Jefferson

If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the…

— Thomas Jefferson

We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.

— Thomas Jefferson

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

— Thomas Jefferson

We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will…

— Thomas Jefferson

The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It…

— Thomas Jefferson