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Quotes by John Locke

"Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected. "
By John Locke
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"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. "
By John Locke
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"Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them. "
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"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. "
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"All wealth is the product of labor. "
By John Locke
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"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common. "
By John Locke
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"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 trip. "
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"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. "
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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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"The discipline of desire is the background of character. "
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"Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided. "
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"That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art. "
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"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. "
By John Locke
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"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. "
By John Locke
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"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. "
By John Locke
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"The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. "
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"The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. "
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"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 learned, but may be little knowing. "
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"We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us. "
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"There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. "
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"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. "
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"Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. "
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"I think it every man's indispensable duty to do all the service he can to his country and I see not what difference he puts betw "
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"Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. "
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"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. "
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