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John Locke Philosopher, Physician
Philosophical

“This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind , and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections:;; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.”

John Locke Philosopher, Physician
Philosophical

“Brutes abstract not. -- If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas, that way, to any degree; this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.”

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John Locke Philosopher, Physician
Thoughtful

“I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men's discourses... 'Tis not the owning one's dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.”

John Locke Philosopher, Physician
Philosophical

“Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure.”

John Locke Philosopher, Physician
Hopeful

“How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue.”

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John Locke Philosopher, Physician
Wise

“For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on.”

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John Locke Philosopher, Physician
Philosophical

“This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.”

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John Locke Philosopher, Physician
Confident

“Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.”

John Locke Philosopher, Physician
Sad

“Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.”

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John Locke Philosopher, Physician
Wise

“Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds; I am apt to think, the fault is generally mislaid upon nature, and there is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in want of a due improvement of them.”

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John Leo Journalist, Author
Funny

“No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz.”

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John Lloyd Young Actor, Singer
Creative

“I think one of the ways that these young singers got started is that they would end up in clubs. And a lot of them were mafia owned. And so there was almost an unspoken kind of mafia sponsorship, which is just a very interesting part of that area's music history.”

John Oliver Comedian
Lonely

“I don't think I'm identified as the anchorman, I think I'm identified as the impostor anchorman - there's a very clear line there ... I don't think it changes the way they respond.”

John Oliver Comedian
Funny

“I think it might honestly be time for the Sunshine State to officially change its motto to the Worst State.”

John Romero Game Designer
Thoughtful

“The thought processes that go through my head when I'm playing a game compared to the thought processes in real life are very, very different. And they're more interesting to me than what you think about when you're doing the dishes, cleaning the yard, watching TV, driving or watching a movie.”

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John Romero Game Designer
Creative

“I think the reason that I like so many different games is because I like the way my brain works when I'm playing games. It's more fun.”

John Ruskin Art Critic, Writer
Inspired

“One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.”

John Ruskin Art Critic, Writer
Hopeful

“Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.”