Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
JOHN LOCKENew opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
More John Locke Quotes
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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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.
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Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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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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You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.
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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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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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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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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
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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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I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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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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