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Knowledge Quotes by John Locke
- 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.
- The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
- The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
- Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
- For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns;…
- Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly…
- Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistakeof our judgment, giving…
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