"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 ...

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
~ Thomas Jefferson ~












He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
More Thomas Jefferson quotes
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
"The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
"I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
"Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stoo...
"There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
"Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American e...
"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
"All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.