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John Locke Quotes


One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

John Locke
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

John Locke
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

John Locke
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

John Locke
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

John Locke
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

John Locke
The discipline of desire is the background of character.

John Locke
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

John Locke
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

John Locke
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

John Locke
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

John Locke
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

John Locke
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

John Locke
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

John Locke
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

John Locke
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

John Locke
To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

John Locke
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

John Locke
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

John Locke