John Locke Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.	Action
2	Affectation in any part of our carriage is but the lighting up of a candle to show our defects, and never fails to make us taken notice of, either as wanting in sense or sincerity.	Affectation
3	I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.	Conversation
4	The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.	Education
5	With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.	Education
6	Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.	Family
7	The discipline of desire is the background of character.	Honor
8	The improvement of the understanding is for two ends: first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.	Knowledge
9	Logic is the anatomy of thought.	Logic
10	Parents wonder why the streams are bitter when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.	Parenting

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