Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside… — John Locke Copy Share Image
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business, for it holds in the struggles of the mind,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge — John Locke Copy Share Image
Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that… — 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… — 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
These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The mind being, as I have declared, furnished with a great number of the simple ideas conveyed in by the senses, as… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
As it is in the body, so it is in the mind; practice makes it what it is, and most even of… — 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… — John Locke Copy Share Image
A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask… — 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
This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can… — John Locke Copy Share Image
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. — John Locke Copy Share Image
It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection. — John Locke Copy Share Image
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. — John Locke Copy Share Image
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender. — 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
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
Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds;… — John Locke Copy Share Image
He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas… — John Locke Copy Share Image
When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie. — 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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