No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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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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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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
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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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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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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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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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He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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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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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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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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