Though 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?
JOHN LOCKEChildren 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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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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The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
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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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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
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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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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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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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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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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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