Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
JOHN LOCKEA man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
More John Locke Quotes
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Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
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Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
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Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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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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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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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
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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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[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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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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A criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
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