John Locke Quotes

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• The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds…
• Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
• If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the…
• 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…
• As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
• Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
• All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
• We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
• 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…
• I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
• Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
• Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
• No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
• An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
• What worries you, masters you.
• 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…
• All wealth is the product of labor.
• All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
• Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
• There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

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