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• Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.

  John Locke

  Gold, Mines

  John Locke, James Augustus St. John (1872). “Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understanding”, p.114

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• What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?

  John Locke

  Faith, Inspiration, What If

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• New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

  John Locke

  Business, Philosophy, War

  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding "Dedicatory Epistle" (1690)

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• Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

  John Locke

  Men, Misery

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• Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

  John Locke

  Men, Self, Liberty

  John Locke (1813). “The Conduct of the Understanding: With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon”, p.128

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• Try all things, hold fast that which is good.

  John Locke

  Biblical, Trying, All Things

  John Locke (2007). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: (Including Of the Conduct of the Understanding)”, p.187, Courier Corporation

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• That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

  John Locke

  Art, Lying, Confusing

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• Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that. For where-ever the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the Arbitrary and Irregular Commands of those that have it: There it presently becomes Tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many.

  John Locke

  Mistake, Thinking, Hands

  John Locke, Peter Laslett (1988). “Locke: Two Treatises of Government Student Edition”, p.400, Cambridge University Press

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• Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances. And indeed the use and benefit of this touchstone, which is natural reason, is spoiled and lost only by assuming prejudices, overweening presumption, and narrowing our minds.

  John Locke

  Men, Mind, Gold

  John Locke (1819). “An essay concerning human understanding. Also, extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].”, p.314

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• Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The 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.

  John Locke

  Children, Silly, Curiosity

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• The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

  John Locke

  Education, Wisdom, Philosophical

  Some Thoughts Concerning Education sec. 88 (1693)

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• Logic is the anatomy of thought.

  John Locke

  Education, Knowledge, Math

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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 as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.

  John Locke

  Education, Teaching, Learning

  John Locke, Ruth Weissbourd Grant, Nathan Tarcov (1996). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, Hackett Publishing

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• Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.

  John Locke

  Mean, Fighting, Opponents

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• It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.

  John Locke

  Practice, Perfection, Mind

  John Locke (1813). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.300

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• The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

  John Locke

  Men, Reason Why, Preservation

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.377

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• It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

  John Locke

  Argument, Penalties, Command

  John Locke (1867). “Letters on Toleration”, p.7

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• But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

  John Locke

  People, Oppression, One Thing

  John Locke (1956). “The Second Treatise of Government: And, A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.147, Courier Corporation

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• Don't tell me what I can't do!

  John Locke

  I Can

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• He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.

  John Locke

  Use, Understood

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.371

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• The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

  John Locke

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Ideas

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• A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask his advice, and consult with him about those things wherein he has any knowledge or understanding. By this, the father will gain two things, both of great moment. The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will begin to be one; and if you admit him into serious discourses sometimes with you, you will insensibly raise his mind above the usual amusements of youth, and those trifling occupations which it is commonly wasted in.

  John Locke

  Growing Up, Father, Son

  "Some Thoughts Concerning Education" by John Locke, (Sec. 95), 1693.

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• The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.

  John Locke

  Education, Knowledge, Two

  "The works of John Locke. To which is added the life of the author and a collection of several of his pieces, publ. by mr. Desmaizeaux".

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• All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors (who for the most part are but the great butchers of mankind) farther mislead growing youth, who by this means come to think slaughter the laudable business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues.

  John Locke

  War, Mean, Fighting

  John Locke (1752). “Some Thoughts concerning Education ... The eleventh edition”, p.174

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• When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.

  John Locke

  Inspirational, Inspirational Success, Hope Of Success

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.3

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