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

“… the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”

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

“I [am] obliged to recur ultimately to my habitual anodyne, "I feel: therefore I exist." I feel bodies which are not myself: there are other existencies then. I call them "matter". I feel them changing place. This gives me "motion". Where there is an absence of matter, I call it "void", or "nothing", or "immaterial space". On the basis of sensation, of matter and motion, we may erect the fabric of all the certainties we can have or need.”

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

“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”

“So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The universe is not responsive to our ambitious expectations.”

“Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess.”

“I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.”

“We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.”

“REFLECTIONS OF TRUTH”

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”