Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
JOHN LOCKECuriosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
More John Locke Quotes
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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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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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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If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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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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We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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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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All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man’s self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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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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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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