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.
JOHN LOCKEWe should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
More John Locke Quotes
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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
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Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
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So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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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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Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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