Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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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Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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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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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.
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When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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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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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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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.
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In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.
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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.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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