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Danh ngôn của John Locke
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
All wealth is the product of labor.
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
What worries you, masters you.
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.