In the beginning, all the world was America.
JOHN LOCKEIf you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
More John Locke Quotes
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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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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.
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Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
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The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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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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