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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Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted. – Thomas Jefferson

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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. – Thomas Jefferson

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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. – Thomas Jefferson

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God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible. – King Hussein I

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. – Horace Mann

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It is a sad regret to have searched for the truth and settled for an answer. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth to know the worst and provide for it. – Patrick Henry

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Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also. – Dalai Lama

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Future

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the “naturals,” the ones who somehow know how to teach. – Peter Drucker

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I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology. – Major Owens

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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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