Quotes By John Locke

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

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.

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.

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

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

What worries you, masters you.

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.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

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

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

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.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

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