John Locke Quotes

If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.

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• I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Believe
  • War
  • Death

• You can get all A's and still flunk life.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Life
  • You
  • Still

• Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Father

• I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Physics

• A great painting is a great painting.

  

  Larry Poons
  • Great
  • Painting

• No sensible author wants anything but praise.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Author
  • Praise
  • Wants

• I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • Life
  • Live
  • Kind

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

  

  O. Henry
  • King
  • Rights
  • New Deal

• I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Nature
  • Deep
  • Human Nature

• I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Training

• Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Country
  • Need

• I don't eat any red meat.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Red
  • Eat
  • Meat

• My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Yoga
  • Meditation
  • Cardio

• It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Women
  • Myself
  • Rock

• What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Perception
  • Act
  • Mental

• It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Money
  • Cool
  • Little

• My first record wasn't even with the Fugees. I was signed to Big Beat Records, so I was signed back in 1989 to the label that the Knocks are on now. You can always tell which generation had the pulse based on how they see things.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Generation
  • Label
  • Pulse

• My mum always removed her make-up at night and taught me early on about the importance of taking care of your skin, especially when you're travelling or extremely busy, because it's so easily affected by your surroundings and health.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Up
  • Night
  • Health

• You may or may not agree with Obama's policy prescriptions, but they are, by and large, serious attempts to deal with the biggest issues we face: a failing health care system, oil dependency, income stagnation, and climate change.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • May
  • Health
  • Serious

• I love a great pair of jeans and a nice blouse.

  

  Allyson Felix
  • Great
  • Nice

• We should render thanks to God for having produced this temporal light, which is the smile of heaven and joy of the world, spreading it like a cloth of gold over the face of the air and earth, and lighting it as a torch by which we might behold His works.

  

  Nicolas Bouvier
  • God
  • Light
  • Thanks

• If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Knowledge
  • Health
  • Destroy