Quotes By 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.

What worries you, masters you.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.