Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Curiosity in children ... is but an appetite after knowledge and therefore ought to be encouraged in them, not only as a… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author;… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The first step to get this noble and manly steadiness, is... carefully keep children from frights of all kinds, when they are… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The tendency to cruelty should be watched in children and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the… — John Locke Copy Share Image
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Reason, if consulted with, would advise, that their children's time should be spent in acquiring what might be useful to them when… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Long discourses, and philosophical readings, at best, amaze and confound, but do not instruct children. When I say, therefore, that they must… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The next thing is by gentle degrees to accustom children to those things they are too much afraid of. But here great… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not… — John Locke Copy Share Image
We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered… — John Locke Copy Share Image
As children's inquiries are not to be slighted, so also great care is to be taken, that they never receive deceitful and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The native and untaught suggestions of inquisitive children do often offer things, that may set a considering man's thoughts on work. And… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out… — John Locke Copy Share Image
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Earthly minds, like mud-walls, resist the strongest batteries: And though perhaps sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“To avoid this state of war (wherein there is no appeal but to heaven, and wherein every the least difference is apt to end,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“don’t let the things you don’t have prevent you from using the things you do have.” — John Locke Copy Share Image
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