Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.
Interpretation
Knowledge grants individuals the ability to influence and protect themselves, leading to overall well-being.
This quote by Thomas Jefferson emphasizes the profound impact that knowledge has on a person's life. It illustrates that knowledge not only empowers individuals to navigate the world effectively but also provides a sense of security and contributes to personal happiness. Understanding and acquiring knowledge is foundational for achieving success and fulfillment in life, as it enables informed decisions and actions.
In practice
During a graduation speech to highlight the importance of education and lifelong learning.
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
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.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.
My affairs are in the keeping of Infinite Wisdom. I am guided by Divine Intelligence. The activity of Spirit inspires my mind and flows through my actions. Life lies open to me, rich, full and abundant.
I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.
I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.
A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.
Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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