It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.Thomas Jefferson
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.Thomas Jefferson
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.Thomas Jefferson
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.Thomas Jefferson
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.Thomas Jefferson
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.Thomas Jefferson
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.Thomas Jefferson
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.Thomas Jefferson
