Thomas Jefferson

(37 votes)   He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(37 votes)   He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Thomas Jefferson

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(37 votes)   How much pain worries have cost us that have never happened?

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(37 votes)   I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(37 votes)   I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(37 votes)   In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(37 votes)   My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(37 votes)   The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(36 votes)   I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(36 votes)   I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(36 votes)   If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(36 votes)   Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

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(36 votes)   It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(36 votes)   It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

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1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(36 votes)   Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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