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Indulged Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- ...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation…
- In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first…
- Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every…
- What has been the effect of coericion [sic]? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and errors…
More Indulged Quotes
- Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead… — Ambrose Bierce
- As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their… — David Brainerd
- Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in… — W. W. Rouse Ball
- Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can… — Aldous Huxley
- A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea." ... Theories and speculations may be indulged… — Elisha Gray
- We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end… — Midge Decter
- Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of… — Paul Morphy
- Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness. — Unknown Author
- Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search,… — Samuel Johnson
- Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said… — John Ruskin
- A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction. — Plato
- Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the… — Glenn Gould