Nothing can illustrate these observations more forcibly, than a recollection of the happy conjuncture of times and circumstances, under which our Republic assumed its rank among the Nations; The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period, the researches of the human mind, after social happiness, have been carried to a great extent, the Treasures of knowledge, acquired by the labours of Philosophers, Sages and Legislatures, through a long succession of years, are laid open for our use, and their collected wisdom may be happily applied in the Establishment of our forms of Government; the free cultivation of Letters, the unbounded extension of Commerce, the progressive refinement of Manners, the growing liberality of sentiment... have had a meliorating influence on mankind and increased the blessings of Society. At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation, and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.
[Circular to the States, 8 June 1783 - Writings 26:484--89]
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
VoltaireTags: virginity knowledge virtue ignorance
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
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Information is not knowledge.
Albert EinsteinTags: knowledge information
Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.
Patricia Briggsnothing that is worth knowing can be taught
Oscar WildeTags: experience education knowledge
Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.
George EliotI can't protect you from knowledge.
Patricia BriggsTags: knowledge
No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.
Ian McEwanTags: knowledge
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. BoorstinTags: knowledge ignorance misattributed-stephen-hawking
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