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I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.

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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit.
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Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds I am apt to think, the fault is generally mislaid upon nature, and there is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in want of a due improvement of them.
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Whoever uses force without Right ... puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
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False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.
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I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.
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To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive having ideas and perception being the same thing.
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
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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.
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Logic is the anatomy of thought.
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.
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Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it
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God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.
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