Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father and the third President of the United States. He is best known as the principal author of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The document provides 15 quotes by Jefferson on topics related to education such as the importance of education in correcting ignorance and vices, how encouragement is key to education, and how books can constitute an individual's capital.

1. 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

2. I like the dreams of the future
better than the history of the
past.

3. If the children are untaught,
their ignorance and vices will
in future life cost us much
dearer in their consequences
than it would have done in
their correction by a good
education.

4. Nine-tenth of education is
encouragement.

5. Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion
to complain of the want of
time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may
be done we were always
doing.

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

7. Nothing can stop the man
with the right mental attitude
from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the
man with the wrong mental
attitude.

8. Do you want to know who you
are?
Don't ask.
Act!
Action will delineate and
define you.

9. If you want something you've
never had, you must be willing
to do something you've never
done before.

10. He who knows best knows
how little he knows.

11. 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.

12. One man with courage is a
majority.

13. To penetrate and dissipate
these clouds of darkness, the
general mind must be
strengthened by education.

14. Delay is preferable to error.

15. Man is an imitative animal.
This quality is the germ of all
education in him.
From his cradle to his grave
he is learning to do what he
sees others do.

16. Whenever you do a thing, act
as if all the world were
watching.

17. Born: April 13, 1743
Shadwell, Virginia, United States
Thomas Jefferson
3rd 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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