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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the t

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

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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

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The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses. – Thomas Jefferson

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods. – Hannah Arendt

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Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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I always come from truth. – Tiger Woods

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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty. – Tacitus

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