"Knowledge being to be had only of visible……" — John Locke
"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 assent to that which is not true."
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74 Quotes by John Locke
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The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to…
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Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and…
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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for…
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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
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We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around…
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Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause…
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
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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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More Assent Quotes
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Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
— William Hazlitt
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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
— Pindar
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I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They…
— Thomas Jefferson
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As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this…
— Thomas Kuhn
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And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person,…
— David Hume
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The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference.
— Unknown Author
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Oh, hear Him within you speaking this infinite love,moving like some divine and audible leaven,lifting the sky of the soul…
— Jessica Powers
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It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State,…
— James Madison
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So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely…
— Charles Hodge
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Every event has a cause-that is ... for every event e1 there exists an event e2 (or a class of…
— Ermanno Bencivenga
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Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
— William Gurnall
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