I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men’s discourses… ‘Tis not the owning one’s dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
JOHN LOCKEThough the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
More John Locke Quotes
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I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
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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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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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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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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from 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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Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man’s self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
JOHN LOCKE