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  • John Locke Quote - Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
  • John Locke Quote - Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
  • John Locke Quote - Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
  • John Locke Quote - Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
  • John Locke Quote - Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
  • John Locke Quote - Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

John Locke

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Locke Quote - And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject. Download This Image

    And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.

    JOHN LOCKE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Locke Quote - There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark. Download This Image

    There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.

    JOHN LOCKE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Locke Quote - Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read. Download This Image

    Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

    JOHN LOCKE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Locke Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    JOHN LOCKE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Locke Quote - 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.

    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.

    JOHN LOCKE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Locke Quote - Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.

    Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.

    JOHN LOCKE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Locke Quote - [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. Download This Image

    [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.

    JOHN LOCKE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Locke Quote - Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.

    Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.

    JOHN LOCKE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Locke Quote - 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.

    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.

    JOHN LOCKE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Locke Quote - 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.

    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.

    JOHN LOCKE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Locke Quote - Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them Download This Image

    Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them

    JOHN LOCKE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Locke Quote - Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.

    Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.

    JOHN LOCKE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Locke Quote - 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.

    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.

    JOHN LOCKE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Locke Quote - Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.

    Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.

    JOHN LOCKE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Locke Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    JOHN LOCKE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram John Locke Quote - Revolt is the right of the people

    Revolt is the right of the people

    JOHN LOCKE