| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 36591 |
| QUOTATION: | Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Locke (1632–1704), British philosopher. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, bk. 4, ch. 20, sect. 1, p. 706, ed. P. Nidditch, Oxford, Clarendon Press (1975). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Locke Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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