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Quote by John Locke
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questio

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. – John Locke

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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. – John Locke

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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. – John Locke

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. – John Locke

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It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. – Aristotle

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Give to everyone who begs from you and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them. – Jesus Christ

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Men blaspheme what they do not know. – Blaise Pascal

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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break. – Herodotus

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My family can always tell when Im well into a novel because the meals get very crummy. – Anne Tyler

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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. – Hannah More

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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. – P. J. ORourke

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The night sky is a miracle of infinitude. – Terri Guillemets, “Temere Sætninger: ix,” 2006

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