New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
JOHN LOCKEFirmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
More John Locke Quotes
-
-
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
JOHN LOCKE -
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
JOHN LOCKE -
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.
JOHN LOCKE -
If 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.
JOHN LOCKE -
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 LOCKE -
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
JOHN LOCKE -
Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
JOHN LOCKE -
He that makes use of another’s fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
JOHN LOCKE -
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
JOHN LOCKE -
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
JOHN LOCKE -
A criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
JOHN LOCKE -
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.
JOHN LOCKE -
I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.
JOHN LOCKE -
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.
JOHN LOCKE -
Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
JOHN LOCKE