Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706

Those who "principle children well ... instil into the unwary, and as yet unprejudiced, understanding (for white paper receives any characters) those doctrines they would have them retain and profess."

— Locke, John (1632-1704)

Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706

Few mathematicians will believe that "all the diagrams they have drawn were but copies of those innate characters which nature had engraven upon their minds"

— Locke, John (1632-1704)

Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706

"If the organs or faculties of perception, like wax over-hardened with cold, will not receive the impression of the seal, from the usual impulse wont to imprint it; or, like wax of a temper too soft, will not hold it well when well imprinted; or else supposing the wax of a temper fit, but the sea...

— Locke, John (1632-1704)

Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706

Can one be "ignorant of those characters which nature herself has taken the care to stamp within?"

— Locke, John (1632-1704)

Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706

"In what I have said I am far from denying that God can, or doth sometimes enlighten men's minds in the apprehending of certain truths, or excite them to good actions by the immediate influence and assistance of the holy spirit, without any extraordinary signs accompanying it"

— Locke, John (1632-1704)

Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706

"The bent of our own minds may favour it as much as we please; that may show it to be a fondling of our own, but will by no means prove it to be an offspring of heaven, and of divine original."

— Locke, John (1632-1704)

Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706

"Thus he who has raised himself above the Alms-Basket, and not content to live lazily on scraps of begg'd Opinions, sets his own Thoughts on work, to find and follow Truth, will (whatever he lights on) not miss the Hunter's Satisfaction"

— Locke, John (1632-1704)

Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706

"Whenever the memory brings any idea into actual view, it is with a consciousness, that it had been there before, and was not wholly a stranger to the mind"

— Locke, John (1632-1704)

Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706

"I pretend not to teach, but to enquire, and therefore cannot but confess here again, that external and internal sensation are the only passages I can find of knowledge to the understanding"

— Locke, John (1632-1704)

Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706

"Secondly, because sometimes I find, that I cannot avoid the having those ideas produced in my mind. For though when my eyes are shut, or windows fast, I can at pleasure recal to my mind the ideas of light, or the sun, which former sensations had lodged in my memory"

— Locke, John (1632-1704)