John Locke quotes

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.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

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

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

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

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

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.

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.

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.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

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.

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.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

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.

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

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

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

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

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

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

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

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.

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

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

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

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

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

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.