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Mind Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind
- life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the…
- I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.
- The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to…
- The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe…
- The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and…
- Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that…
- My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society,…
- Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,…
- Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty…
- Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the…
- No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education…
- Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and…
- 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…
- To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which…
- This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be…
- The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of…
- I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points of liberty and…
- 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…
- This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may…
More Mind Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle