"He who knows nothing is closer to..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.”

“A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.”

“It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience [has] shown that, even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”

“The truer the facts the better the fiction.”

“Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.”

“One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.”

“A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.”

“Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?”

“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.”