New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
JOHN LOCKEHe that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
More John Locke Quotes
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Revolt is the right of the people
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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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[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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There 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.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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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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Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
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