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Useful Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil…
- the study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his…
- I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day,…
- Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother…
- I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but…
- Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.
- Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place…
- You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject…
- I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful…
- I love peace, and am anxious that we should give the world still another useful lesson, by showing to them other modes of punishing injuries…
- Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded,…
- To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer,…
- To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or…
- The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth…
- The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.
- The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters
- Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila
- To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed,… — Charles Babbage
- Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. — Francis Bacon
- Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what… — Johnny Ball
- The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the… — William Bartram
- Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove… — Scott Adams
- Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or… — Mortimer Adler
- We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting… — Arnold Bennett
- Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training… — Annie Besant
- Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So… — Manolo Blahnik