John Locke

Quotes

• “But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.”
• “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.”
• “This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections ; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.”
• “Sophistry is only fit to make men more conceited in their ignorance.”
• “This life affords no solid satisfaction, but in the consciousness of having done well, and the hopes of another life.”
• “New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”

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