Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
JOHN LOCKECuriosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
More John Locke Quotes
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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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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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When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
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Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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