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.
Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.
Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
While Eeyore frets ... ... and Piglet hesitates ... and Rabbit calculates ... and Owl pontificates ...Pooh just is.
...the air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after youβve been to the dentist or aches like your heart in the bosom when you stand on the street corner waiting for the light to change and happen to recollect how things once were and how they might have been yet if what happened had not happened.
Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart.
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