Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
JOHN LOCKEMemory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
More John Locke Quotes
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Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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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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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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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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I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men’s discourses… ‘Tis not the owning one’s dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
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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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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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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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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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