"If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people…" — Thomas Jefferson
"If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?"
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1,437 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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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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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and…
— Samuel Beckett
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Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.
— Nathaniel Branden
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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
— Robert Burns
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Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
— Joseph Campbell
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I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I…
— John le Carre
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Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.
— Deepak Chopra
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It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
— Deepak Chopra
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Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there,…
— Erich Fromm
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That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away…
— Unknown Author
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
— Edmund Spenser
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Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will…
— Swami Vivekananda
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