About Thomas Jefferson

Principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third U.S. President. (1743-1826)

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More from Thomas Jefferson

• The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)
• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.Letter to John Adams (1816)
• There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world.Letter to Henry Lee (1826)
• But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.Letter to Charles Willson Peale (1811)
• Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.Letter to Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1816)

More quotes on learning and wisdom

• The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.Bertrand Russell
• When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.Blaise Pascal
• It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.Søren Kierkegaard
• Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.Charlie Munger
• I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines.Charlie Munger
• A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example.Peter Drucker

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