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Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.

John Locke

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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
Philosopher
Physician
Politician
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it. For he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it nor be much concerned when he misses it.
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How then shall they have the play-games you allow them, if none must be bought for them? I answer, they should make them themselves, or at least endeavour it, and set themselves about it. ...And if you help them where they are at a stand, it will more endear you to them than any chargeable toys that you shall buy for them.
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Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it
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I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.
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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
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Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.
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Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
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Understanding like the eye whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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Who lies for you will lie against you.
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.
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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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The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.
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The Legislative cannot transfer the Power of Making Laws to any other hands. For it being but a delegated Power from the People, they who have it, cannot pass it over to others. The People alone can appoint the Form of the Commonwealth, which is by Constituting the Legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be.
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