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.
JOHN LOCKEThere cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
More John Locke Quotes
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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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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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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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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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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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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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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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We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
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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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The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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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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