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“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.”

Quote by John Locke

Book:Locke's essays. An essay concerning human understanding. And A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. With the author's last additions

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Locke's essays. An essay concerning human understanding. And A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. With the author's last additions

John Locke's 'An Essay Concerning Human Understanding' and 'A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding' are foundational texts in the fields of philosophy and cognitive science. The 'Essay' delves into the nature of human knowledge and understanding, while the 'Treatise' examines the principles of reasoning and perception. Both works are renowned for their influence on subsequent philosophical thought. more

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John Locke

John Locke (August 29, 1632 - October 28, 1704) was an English philosopher, political theorist, and physician, considered one of the most influential figures of the Enlightenment. His ideas have had a profound impact on political philosophy, ethics, and epistemology. more

“The native and untaught suggestions of inquisitive children do often offer things, that may set a considering man's thoughts on work. And I think there is frequently more to be learn'd from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed, and the prejudices of their education.”

Thinking Men May Children Offers Prejudice Notion Native Unexpected Considering Suggestions Discourse Borrowed Inquisitive

Book:Locke, Berkely & Hume

Source: Locke, Berkely & Hume

“New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'”

Kids Islands New Orleans

Author:Jonah Hill

“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.”

Men Littles Dream Accepting Good Thoughts Good Dream

Book:The Conduct of the Understanding. By J. Locke ... Essays ... By Lord Bacon. With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon

Source: The Conduct of the Understanding. By J. Locke ... Essays ... By Lord Bacon. With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon

“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.”

Way Mind Children Pain Suffering Degrees Gains Foundation Lays Resolution Shrinking Firmness

Book:Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education

“Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.”

Men Littles Common Censure

Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author

Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author

“All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.”

Ifs Men Self Sides Balance Rising Stairs Factions

Book:The Conduct of the Understanding; By John Locke ... Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political; by Francis Bacon

Source: The Conduct of the Understanding; By John Locke ... Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political; by Francis Bacon

“It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.”

Certain Opinion Ought Bounds Worthwhile Persuasion Moderates Certain Knowledge

Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.”

Men Persons Self States Action Desire Loses Liberty Strange Fame Servant Sovereign Thrice Power Over Others

Book:The Conduct of the Understanding: With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon

Source: The Conduct of the Understanding: With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon