Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Innovation

• If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea... No one possesses the less, because every other possess the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Creativity, Thinking, Light

  Letter to Isaac McPherson, 13 Aug. 1813

• I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Innovation, Prejudice, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814”, p.210, Princeton University Press

• Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Presidential, Innovation, Majority

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

• The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Office, Innovation, Prepared

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.27, Cambridge University Press

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