Picture Quotes If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The next thing is by gentle degrees to accustom children to those things they are too much afraid of. But here great caution is to be used, that you do not make too much haste, nor attempt this cure too early, for fear lest you increase the mischief instead of remedying it. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Truth then seems to me, in the proper import of the word, to signify nothing but the joining or separating of Signs, as the Things signified by them do agree or disagree one with another. The joining or separating of signs here meant, is what by another name we call proposition. So that truth properly belongs only to propositions: whereof there are two sorts, viz. mental and verbal; as there are two sorts of signs commonly made use of, viz. ideas and words. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Curiosity in children ... is but an appetite after knowledge and therefore ought to be encouraged in them, not only as a good sign, but as the great instrument nature has provided to remove that ignorance they were born with and which, without this busy inquisitiveness, will make them dull and useless creatures. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes As the magistrate has no power to impose by his laws the use of any rites and ceremonies in any church, so neither has he any power to forbid the use of such rites and ceremonies as are already received, approved, and practised by any church; because if he did so, he would destroy the church itself; the end of whose institution is only to worship God with freedom, after its own manner. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The Indians , whom we call barbarous, observe much more decency and civility in their discourses and conversation, giving one another a fair silent hearing till they have quite done; and then answering them calmly, and without noise or passion. And if it be not so in this civiliz'd part of the world, we must impute it to a neglect in education, which has not yet reform'd this antient piece of barbarity amongst us. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The greatest part cannot know, and therefore they must believe. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Whoever has used what means he is capable of, for the informing of himself, with a readiness to believe and obey what shall be taught and prescribed by Jesus, his Lord and King, is a true and faithful subject of Christ s kingdom:;; and cannot be thought to fail in any thing necessary to salvation. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption: therefore, always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, and declare it, together with the reasons that move thee to change. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that affection may spur them to their duty, and make them find a pleasure in complying with his dictates. This will bring them with satisfaction to their tutor; make them hearken to him, as to one who is their friend, that cherishes them, and takes pains for their good; this will keep their thoughts easy and free, whilst they are with him, the only temper wherein the mind is capable of receiving new information, and of admitting into itself... Read more » —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes That which parents should take care of... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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 LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Power to do good is the true and lawful act of aspiring; for good thoughts (though God accept them), yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes As it is in the body, so it is in the mind; practice makes it what it is, and most even of those excellencies, what are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch, only by repeated actions. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason is the proper judge; and revelation, though it may, in consenting with it, confirm its dictates, yet cannot in such cases invalidate its decrees: nor can we be obliged, where we have the clear and evident sentience of reason, to quit it for the contrary opinion, under a pretence that it is matter of faith: which can have no authority against the plain and clear dictates of reason. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes This is my destiny — I'm supposed to do this, dammit! Don't tell me what I can and can't do! —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful; which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The mind being, as I have declared, furnished with a great number of the simple ideas conveyed in by the senses, as they are found in exterior things, or by reflection on its own operations, take notice, also, that a certain number of these simple ideas go constantly together... which, by inadvertency, we apt afterward to talk of and condier as one simple idea. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go or stay, as he best likes; though his preference be determined to stay, by the darkness of the night, or illness of the weather, or want of other lodging. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly, or corruption, endeavour to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people, by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into the hands... and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and... provide for their own safety and security. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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 LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes With books we stand on the shoulders of giants. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business, for it holds in the struggles of the mind, as in those of war, that to think we shall conquer is to conquer. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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. —John LockeWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this