Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
JOHN LOCKECuriosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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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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There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.
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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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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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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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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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No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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He that makes use of another’s fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
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It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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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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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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