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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice. — John Locke

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender. — John Locke

If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him. — John Locke

Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge — John Locke

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example. — John Locke

With books we stand on the shoulders of giants. — John Locke

The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have. — John Locke

I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods? — William John Locke

Our happiness is made up of the things we miss. — William John Locke

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it. — John Locke

The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits. — John Locke

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time. — John Locke

Fabulous. Toleration is the key word. It's a pity few people understand this. — Cristiane Serruya

Where there is no desire, there will be no industry. — John Locke

Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch. — William John Locke

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since! — Bertrand Russell

Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue. — John Locke

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding. — John Locke

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

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning. — John Locke

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. — John Locke

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. — John Locke

Every man's first declaration of love is bathos
the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence. — William John Locke

As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years. — William John Locke

It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection. — John Locke

No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace. — William John Locke

The picture of a shadow is a positive thing. — John Locke

Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you. — John Locke

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone — John Locke

Justice and truth are the common ties of society — John Locke

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

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

Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all. — John Locke

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. — John Locke

Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity. — William John Locke

The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. — John Locke

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

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. — John Locke

Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them. — John Locke

How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them? — John Locke

Revolt is the right of the people — John Locke

Logic is the anatomy of thought. — John Locke

He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation. — John Locke

I'm telling you, monsters aren't born, they're made. — C.J. Roberts

Methinks Sir Robert should have carried his Monarchical Power one step higher and satisfied the World, that Princes might eat their Subjects too. — John Locke

Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine. — John Locke

That which parents should take care of ... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature. — John Locke

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. — John Locke

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read. — John Locke

Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything. — 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

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. — John Locke

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. — John Locke

Beasts abstract not. — John Locke

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with. — John Locke

The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate. — John Locke

Art is long, and the talk about it is even longer. — William John Locke

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

To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another. — William John Locke

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

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. — John Locke

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

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 — John Locke

Few men think, yet all will have opinions. Hence men's opinions are superficial and confused. — John Locke

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 — John Locke

Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance. — John Locke

[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. — John Locke

Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool? — John Locke

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

All wealth is the product of labor. — John Locke

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

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. — John Locke

If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. — John Locke

Women are women and can't help themselves. — William John Locke

What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason? — John Locke

Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest. — William John Locke

Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth. — John Locke

He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood. — John Locke

When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success ... — John Locke

Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd. — John Locke

Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions. — John Locke

There's always a random element to taking lives. — John Locke

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. — John Locke

What is a logical mind? ... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified. — William John Locke

Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant. — John Locke

Try all things, hold fast that which is good. — John Locke

There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven. — John Locke

The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time. — John Locke

The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions. — William John Locke

The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny. — John Locke

I close my eyes, take a deep breath, and let it out completely, along with my soul. — John Locke

The measure of my success is the measure of my happiness. — William John Locke

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. — John Locke

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

Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed. — William John Locke

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. — John Locke

Men always forget that human happiness is a disposition of mind and not a condition of circumstances. - John Locke — Robert Jackson Bennett

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

God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man. — John Locke