So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
JOHN LOCKEThere is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
More John Locke Quotes
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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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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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The 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.
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I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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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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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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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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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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