John Locke Quotes


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 Understanding 338
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. John Locke Government 301
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. John Locke Health 298
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. John Locke Self 258
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided. John Locke Humanity 243
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. John Locke Family 174
Where there is no property there is no injustice. John Locke Property 157
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. John Locke Leadership 156
It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth. John Locke Truth 127
Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuit prius in sensu:Nothing is in the understanding, which was not first perceived by some of the senses. John Locke Perception 122
All wealth is the product of labor. John Locke Labor 116
Logic is the anatomy of thought. John Locke Logic 115
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. John Locke Communication 109
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. John Locke Experience 105
The great art of learning is to understand but little at a time. John Locke Understanding 102
Every man has a property in his own person; this nobody has a right to but himself. John Locke Self 101
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. John Locke Virtue 95
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have, and therefore should be secured, because they seldom return again. John Locke Thought 87
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. John Locke Parenting 84
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. John Locke Men 82
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 Men 81
New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed because they are not already common. John Locke Opinions 81
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. John Locke Society 80
We are a kind of chameleons, taking our hue-the hue of our moral character-from those who are about us. John Locke Morals 79
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distiguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational and mere senseless than beasts themselves John Locke Money 79
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke best 70
Had the King of Spain employed the hands of his people, and his Spanish iron so, he had brought to light but little of that treasure that lay so long hid in the dark entrails of America. John Locke America 67
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. John Locke Fashion 67
He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation. John Locke Leisure 67
Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule. John Locke Habits 67
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love. John Locke Absent 66
The discipline of desire is the background of character. John Locke Desires 66
The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation. John Locke Miracles 65
Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural. John Locke Manners 64
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education. John Locke Uncategorized 63
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. John Locke Religion 63
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 Society 63
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 Finance 61
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke Knowledge 59
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. John Locke Education 59
Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue. John Locke Virtue 58
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. John Locke Education 58
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. John Locke Depths 57
To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing. John Locke Ideas 57
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach. John Locke Teaching 57
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. John Locke Time 54
We should have a great many 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 Words 54
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else. John Locke Contentment 52
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 Truth 50
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 Abolish 49

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