15 jefferson quotes for teachers and parents

T h o m a s J e f f e r s o n

Born: April 13, 1743

15 Jefferson Quotes for

Teacher and Students

I like the dreams of the futurebetter than the history of thepast.

If the children are untaught,their ignorance and vices willin future life cost us muchdearer in their consequencesthan it would have done intheir correction by a goodeducation.

Nine-tenth of education isencouragement.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasionto complain of the want oftime who never loses any. It is wonderful how much maybe done we were alwaysdoing.

I find that the harder I work,the more luck I seem to have.

Nothing can stop the manwith the right mental attitudefrom achieving his goal;nothing on earth can help theman with the wrong mentalattitude.

Do you want to know who youare? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate anddefine you.

If you want something you'venever had, you must be willingto do something you've neverdone before.

He who knows best knowshow little he knows.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long asa house, for hundreds ofyears.

It is not, then, an article ofmere consumption but fairlyof capital, and often in thecase of professional men,setting out in life, it is theironly capital.

One man with courage is amajority.

To penetrate and dissipatethese clouds of darkness, thegeneral mind must bestrengthened by education.

Delay is preferable to error.

Man is an imitative animal.This quality is the germ of alleducation in him. From his cradle to his gravehe is learning to do what hesees others do.

Whenever you do a thing, actas if all the world werewatching.

Born: April 13, 1743Shadwell, Virginia, United States

T h o m a s J e f f e r s o n3rd U.S. President

Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States.

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