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Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understanding

Book by John Locke · 5 quotes · Art, May, All Things

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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.”

“A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.”

“Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.”