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?
JOHN LOCKESo difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
More John Locke Quotes
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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.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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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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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
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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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The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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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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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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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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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.
JOHN LOCKE