Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
JOHN LOCKEAnd thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
More John Locke Quotes
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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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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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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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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Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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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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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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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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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.
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