"Our Business here is not to know all……" — John Locke
"Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct."
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John Locke
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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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