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The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.

The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.

John Locke
Art, Littles, Great Art

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

John Locke
Art, Lying, Confusing

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

John Locke
Art, Learning, Littles

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

John Locke
Art, Lying, Men
John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.373

Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.

John Locke
Art, Memories, Practice
John Locke, James Augustus St. John (1872). “Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understanding”, p.37

Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.

John Locke
Art, Pain, Distance
John Locke, James Augustus St. John (1872). “Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understanding”, p.128

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