Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke
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These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in bringing our city back. -
We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself. -
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive. -
Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.
More quotes by John Locke
- 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.
- I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
- No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
- 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.