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" Truths are not the better nor the worse for their obviousness or difficulty, but their value is to be measured by their usefulness and tendency. "
Locke's Conduct of the Understanding - Page 59
by John Locke - 1881 - 136 pages
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The conduct of the understanding

John Locke - 1801 - 168 pages
...pick up and examine every pebble that comes in his way, is as unlikely to return enriched and laden with jewels, as the other that travelled full speed....their value is to be measured by their usefulness ami tendency. Insignificint observations should not take up any of our minutes, and those that enlarge...
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Philosophical beauties selected from the works of John Locke

John Locke - 1802 - 308 pages
...pick up and examine every pebble lhat comes in his way, is as unlikely to return er «ched an A'iaden with jewels, as the o,ther that travelled full speed....observations should not take Up any of our minutes, and those thai enlarge our view, and give light towards farther and useful discoveries, should not be neglected,...
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The Conduct of the Understanding

John Locke - Intellect - 1802 - 184 pages
...to pick up and examine every pehhle that comes in his way, is as unlikely to return rich and laden with jewels, as the other that travelled full speed. Truths are not the hetter nor the worse for their ohviousness or difficulty, hut their value is to he measured hy their...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 2

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 520 pages
...pick up and examine every pebble that conies in his way, is as unlikely to return enriched and loacicn with jewels, as the other that travelled full speed....and tendency. Insignificant observations should not take-up any of our minutes; and those that enlarge our view, and give light towards farther and useful...
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The conduct of the understanding. To which is prefixed, a sketch of the life ...

John Locke - 1812 - 178 pages
...the other tJiait travelled full speed. Truths are not the better nOf the worse for their obviousttess or difficulty, but their value is to be measured by...take up any of our minutes, and those that enlarge onr view, and give light towards farther and useful disdovetfes, should not be neglected, though they...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 2

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1813 - 448 pages
...pick up and examine every pebble that comes in his way, is as unlikely to return enriched and laden with jewels, as the other that travelled full speed....enlarge our view, and give light towards farther and uselul discoveries, should not be neglected, though they stop our course, and spend some of our time...
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An essay concerning human understanding. To which are now added, i. Analysis ...

John Locke - 1816 - 1048 pages
...science in every trivial question, or scruple, that he may raise. He that will stand to pick up a»d examine every pebble that comes in his way, is as...worse for their obviousness or difficulty, but their v;i.!ue is to be measured by their usefulness and tendency. Insignificant observations should not lake...
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The conduct of the understanding

John Locke - Intellect - 1823 - 202 pages
...to pick up and examine every pebble that comes in his way, is as unlikely to return rich and laden with jewels, as the other that travelled full speed....discoveries, should not be neglected, though they stop oil course, and spend some of our time in a fixed attention. There is another haste that does often,...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With the Author's Last Additions ...

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1828 - 602 pages
...pick up and examine every pebble that comes in his way, is as unlikely to return enriched and laden with jewels, as the other that travelled full speed....up any of our minutes, and those that enlarge our views, and give light towards farther and useful discoveries, should not be neglected, though they...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...enriched and ludcu with ^vjfttó, ш Uve other that Truths Are not the better nor the YÍOIUU foi Vos« t ican Book Exchange Illsignificant observations should not take up any of our minutes; and those that enlarge our view,...
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