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Littles Quotes - Page 200

Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

John Locke (1825). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author”, p.33

Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.

John Henry Newman, James Tolhurst (1849). “Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations”, p.188, Gracewing Publishing

It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.

John Donne, John E. Booty (1990). “John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers”, p.257, Paulist Press

A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.

Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1330, Penguin