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Knowledge Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the…
- Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old dull scoundrel in…
- I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure…
- Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest…
- The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at…
- Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent…
- Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.
- The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.
- Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.
- The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to…
- If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
- He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
- I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which…
- Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man…
- Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people…
- Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he…
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