"Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.
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“We might have been a free and great people together.”
“Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.”
“I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.”
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“I think my sense of humor is really dark and super twisted and stuff like that. It's like, "Is this a funny joke for real? Or am I just rich?" See? That was funny.”
“Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.”
“The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.”
More on Ignorance
“Conclusions are ignorance arrested on the path to less ignorance.”
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“We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.”