Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
JOHN LOCKEThough 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?
More John Locke Quotes
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Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
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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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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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Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
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Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
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Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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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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So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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