A Quote by Thomas Jefferson

We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform.

Thomas Jefferson

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Amuse Cannot Contented Inform Must We Cannot

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Thomas Jefferson
American - President
April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826

Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance dis contented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity.

John Ruskin

Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema...The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself.

Lee Kuan Yew

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

Whittaker Chambers

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

Evelyn Waugh

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

Evelyn Waugh

The single combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections: the skillful evolutions of war may inform the mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious, science. But in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood, and horror, and confusion . . .

Edward Gibbon

You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.

Wangari Maathai

Our job is not to amuse our readers. Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them. Our task is to continually hold up our government and our leaders to clear-eyed analysis, unaffected by professional spinmeisters and agenda-pushers.

Tony Auth

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Walter Savage Landor

If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.

Indira Gandhi

The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.

Orison Swett Marden

Oh what a happy soul am I although I cannot see, I am resolved that in this world contented I shall be. How many blessings I enjoy that other people don't. To weep and sigh, because I'm blind? I cannot and I won't.

Fanny Crosby

The rules are now clear: no one is going to inform you, but it's easier than ever to inform yourself.

Seth Godin

That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother [Marie Curie] has told us always, but never that science was the only career worth following.