It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothi…

Thomas Jefferson
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It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph
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