It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.
- Topic: Truth
- Location: Olympic National Park
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More Quotes from John Locke
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature; these are the spur and reins whereby al mankind are set on work, and guided.
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No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.
Realizing the Divine as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.
If you can't find the truth right where you are, where else do you think you will find it.
The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
