"I am sure that in estimating every man's……" — Thomas Jefferson
"I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second."
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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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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Common sense is calculation applied to life.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.
— Sun Tzu
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I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the…
— Francis Bacon
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It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics]…
— Werner Heisenberg
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific…
— John Herschel
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His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything…
— Nikola Tesla
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...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come…
— Garry Kasparov
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If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it…
— Nikola Tesla
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Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation,…
— Camille Flammarion
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