No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
JOHN LOCKEThough the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
More John Locke Quotes
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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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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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Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
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Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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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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