It is one thing to show a man that he is... by John Locke | We Heart Quotes

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It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.

- John Locke

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Love

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.

- John Locke

Body Sound Mind Will

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

- John Locke

Men

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

- John Locke

What worries you, masters you.

- John Locke

Desire Character

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

- John Locke

Experience Man

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

- John Locke

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