Life Quotes Quote by Thomas Jefferson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Every generation needs a new revolution.”

“Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.”

“But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.”

“I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”

“Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.”

“I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.”

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

“What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.”

“You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.”

“The outer world is a reflection of the inner world. Other people’s perception of you is a reflection of them; your response to them is an awareness of you.”

“I don’t want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like I’ll be in the future. I want to be me and nothing but me. I want to be crazy as the moon, wild as the wind and still as the earth. I want to be every single thing it’s possible to be. I’m growing and I don’t know how to grow. I’m living but I haven’t started living yet. Sometimes I simply disappear from myself. Sometimes it’s like I’m not here in the world at all and I simply don’t exist. Sometimes I can hardly think. My head just drifts, and the visions that come seem so vivid.”