Quotes By 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
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
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
John Locke
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
John Locke
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
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
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
John Locke
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
John Locke
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
John Locke
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
John Locke
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John Locke
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
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
John Locke
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
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