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John Locke quotes about truth

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“Truth scarce ever yet carried it by vote anywhere at its first appearance: new opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. But truth, like gold, is not the less so for...” John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“For untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.” John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“That it is no great matter, whether I remove his scruple or no: where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.” John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“When we find out an idea by whose intervention we discover the connexion of two others, this is a revelation from God to us by the voice of reason: for we then come to know a truth that we did not know before.” John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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