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 LOCKENothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
More John Locke Quotes
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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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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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Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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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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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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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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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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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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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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