"besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is……" — Thomas Jefferson
"besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other."
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1,437 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson has 1,437 quotes on this site.
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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able…
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted…
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral…
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better…
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature,…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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More Auxiliary Quotes
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one of 25 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the…
— Remy de Gourmont
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No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis…
— Imre Lakatos
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But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports;…
— Noah Webster
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Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes…
— William Buckland
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Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so…
— William Buckland
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Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the…
— James Madison
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Wrangel pretended to combat the Bolsheviks, Bolshevism is Jewry. In order to retain the favor of the Jews holding the…
— Boris Brasol
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The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become…
— Otto Schily
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Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member.…
— Fawn M. Brodie
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She was an auxiliary nurse but training to be a true nurse because that was her calling, to serve mankind.…
— Edna O'Brien
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The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to…
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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