Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
JOHN LOCKEIn the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
More John Locke Quotes
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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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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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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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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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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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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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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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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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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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