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John Locke

English philosopher and physician

1632–1704

16 quotes, most often on Truth & Lies, Knowledge and Freedom.

Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), Sec. 70
- Knowledge
- Virtue
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter’d by degrees, as he can bear it; and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), Sec. 94
- Education
- Knowledge
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.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), Book IV, Ch. 16, sec. 4
- Knowledge

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