"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
-John Locke
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"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."
-John Locke
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"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."
-John Locke
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"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
-John Locke
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"All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it."
-John Locke
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"The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property."
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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
-Isaac Asimov
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"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."
-Plato
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"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."
-H. L. Mencken
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"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
-Nicolaus Copernicus
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"Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity."
-Jose Marti
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