Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.
The boundaries of the species, whereby men sort them, are made by men.
Source: John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) Book III, Chapter 6, section 37.
Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts.
Source: John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)’ Book IV, Chapter: 18.
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There cannot any one moral Rule be propos’d, whereof a Man may not justly demand a Reason.
Source: John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689). Book I, Chapter 3, section 4.
Sophistry is only fit to make men more conceited in their ignorance.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Source: John Locke’ As quoted in “Hand Book : Caution and Counsels” in The Common School Journal Vol. 5, No. 24 (15 December 1843) by Horace Mann, page: 371. Complete Sentence: This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand Read More…
To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
Source: John Locke, Letter to Anthony Collins (29 October 1703)