John Locke Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Locke
John Locke Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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.
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.
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.
Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
When we find out an Idea, by whose Intervention we discover the Connexion of two others, this is a Revelation from God to us, by the voice of Reason.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
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.
He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
There are some Men of one, some but of two Syllogisms, and no more; and others that can but advance one step farther.
Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without them.
The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity Ch.2, 8
[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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.