Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

John Locke
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More Quotes By John Locke
  1. We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

  2. For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of...

  3. To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

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

  5. The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

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