Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
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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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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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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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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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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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
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Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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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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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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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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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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