All THOMAS JEFFERSON Quotes about “Ignorance”

“If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.”
“To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnings, as that unremitting labor shall be necessary to obtain a sufficient surplus to sustain a scanty and miserable life.”
“If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?”
“No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity”
“Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.”
“Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.”
“preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.”
“Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.”
“Bigotry is the disease of ignorance.”

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