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Understanding Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- 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…
- But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he…
- Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to…
- The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain…
- In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important issues. Those accustomed…
- The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more…
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- Lao Tsu says the way of life is ancient, timeless. It is existence which he calls the Tao - a mysterious source,… — Frederick Lenz
- The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. — Paulo Coelho
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence… — Albert Camus
- No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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