| 30 Famous Quotes by John Locke
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“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 time.”
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“All wealth is the product of labor.”
Labor Quotes |
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“Logic is the anatomy of thought”
Logic Quotes |
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“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 guided”
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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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“Oppression can only survive through silence.”
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“Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.”
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“He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is
capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss.”
Judgment Quotes Source: Human Understanding (bk. II, ch. XXI)
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“The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.”
Shadows Quotes Source: Essay concerning Human Understanding (bk. II, ch. VIII, par. 5)
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“To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures
generally content themselves with the title.”
Reason Quotes Source: Letter to Antony Collins, Esq.
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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.”
Errors Quotes Source: Essay Concerning Human Understanding (bk. IV, Of Wrong Assent or Error, ch. XX)
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“Th' an'am an Dhia, but there it is--
The dawn on the hills of Ireland.
God's angels lifting the night's black veil
From the fair sweet face of my sireland!
O Ireland, isn't it grand, you look
Like a bride in her rich adornin',
And with all the pent up love of my heart
I bid you the top of the morning.”
Ireland Quotes Source: The Exile's Return
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“O, love is the soul of a true Irishman;
He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can,
With his sprig of shillelagh and shamrock so green.”
Ireland Quotes Source: The Exile's Return
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“It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein
men find pleasure to be deceived.”
Deceit Quotes Source: Human Understanding (bk. III, ch. X, 34)
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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.”
Ignorance Quotes Source: Human Understanding (bk. I, ch. II)
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“Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. ne great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.”
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“All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.”
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“Logic is the anatomy of thought.”
Logic Quotes |
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“Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. ne great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.”
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“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of
knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
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“The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
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“I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.”
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“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
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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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“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
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