"Man is fed with fables through life,..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.
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“The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.”
“God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion.”
“Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts.”
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“Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.”
“All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.”
“Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.”
More on Truth
“Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.”
“Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.”
“Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.”