John Locke quote: We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs ...

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

~ John Locke ~

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs ...

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

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Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

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Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.