Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
JOHN LOCKEThe greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
More John Locke Quotes
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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.
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[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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