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John Locke
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Quote 2947
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we haveby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: thoughts ideas fortune mind value chance
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Quote 2946
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to othersby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: improvement understanding reason knowledge ability
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Quote 2945
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedomby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: law freedom liberty protection
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Quote 2944
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourseby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: interruption discussion errors speech
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Quote 2943
Logic is the anatomy of thoughtby: John Locke -
Quote 2942
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experienceby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: knowledge experience advantage
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Quote 2941
Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from othersby: John Locke -
Quote 2940
Wherever law ends, tyranny beginsby: John Locke -
Quote 2939
The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrateby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: soul carefulness
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Quote 2938
The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creationby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: sign wisdom power appearance nature
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Quote 2937
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 obeyedby: John Locke -
Quote 2936
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.by: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: learning experience education discussion prejudices worth
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Quote 2935
Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no usesby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: nature opportunity superficiality indifference performance
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Quote 2934
Where there is no property there is no injusticeby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: property richness injustice opportunity
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Quote 2933
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.by: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: fashion richness bragging worthlessness
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Quote 2932
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no timeby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: activity time troubles transience decision
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Quote 2931
If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offenderby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: punishment willpower self-development sense
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Quote 2930
All wealth is the product of labor.by: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: reason wealth richness reward work effort
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Quote 2929
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truthby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: errors knowledge possession truth sense
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Quote 2928
To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.by: John Locke -
Quote 2927
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to itby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: liabilities errors passion interest mankind
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Quote 2926
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwardsby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: character changes conviction resistance
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Quote 2925
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppressionby: John Locke -
Quote 2924
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of itby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: protection world knowledge wisdom
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Quote 2923
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic momentby: John Locke -
Quote 2922
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their propertyby: John Locke -
Quote 2921
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already commonby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: progress ideas opinion opponent reason habit
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Quote 2920
To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyeby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: prejudices attention mind ideas superficiality
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Quote 2919
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men.- It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter.- It is all pure.by: John Locke -
Quote 2918
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.by: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: dependence morality character imitation
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Quote 2917
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amissby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: judgment information knowledge errors superficiality conviction justice
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Quote 2916
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of goodby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: evil fear principle action reason
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Quote 2915
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish himby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: character education self-development imperfection perfection company fellowship
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Quote 2914
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.by: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: neighbourhood harmony tolerance truth society determination morality
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Quote 2913
What worries you, masters youby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: self-development troubles education experience
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Quote 2912
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountainby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: education parents problems causes children troubles
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Quote 2911
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 themselvesby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: disputes world sign ideas harmony troubles understanding
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Quote 2910
The discipline of desire is the background of character.by: John Locke -
Quote 2909
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtuesby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: truth perfection world virtue
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Quote 2908
Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.by: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: practice habit rules indifference
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Quote 2907
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.by: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: fortitude support virtue character
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Quote 2906
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrantby: John Locke -
Quote 2905
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guidedby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: goodness evil reward punishment reason dependence mankind
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Quote 2904
Nobody is going to let anybody's children play on something that is unsafe. There is just no wayby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: safety games security children responsibility caution
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Quote 2903
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglectedby: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: errors truth generality value
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Quote 1534
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.by: John LockeMore quotes on the topics: thoughts action opinion dependence
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Quote 1171
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to tripby: John Locke
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