The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
JOHN LOCKETill 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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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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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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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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Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
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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.
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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?
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
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If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
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Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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