Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
JOHN LOCKEMoral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
More John Locke Quotes
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Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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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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Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
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Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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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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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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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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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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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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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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