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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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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. – Thomas Jefferson

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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. – Marcus Aurelius

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