"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be."
― Thomas Jefferson
Topic(s):
Hope
More From Thomas Jefferson
- "In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue."
- "I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."
- "Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
More In Hope
- "So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality."― Susan Sarandon
- "I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t."― F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate."― Eric Hoffer