John Locke famous quotes

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.
-- John Locke

#Funny #Money #Shoes

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Education

What worries you, masters you.
-- John Locke

#Inspirational #Life #Courage

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

#Inspirational #Philosophical #Walking Away

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

#Children #Philosophical #Men

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

#Business #War #Creativity

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

#Motivational #Honesty #Integrity

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
-- John Locke

#Teaching #Easier #Command

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.
-- John Locke

#Love #Pregnancy #Might

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

#Self Esteem #Philosophical #Men

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

#Peace #War #Independent

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.
-- John Locke

#Freedom #Law #Ends

Where there is no property there is no injustice.
-- John Locke

#Philosophical #Justice #Injustice

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

#Long #Use

The discipline of desire is the background of character.
-- John Locke

#Philosophical #Character #Discipline

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

#Education #Knowledge #Two

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

#Philosophical #Knowledge #Science

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

#Philosophical #Government #Ends

All wealth is the product of labor.
-- John Locke

#Philosophical #Wealth #Prosperity

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.
-- John Locke

#Eye #Men #Darkness

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.
-- John Locke

#Ocean #Serendipity #Sailor

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.
-- John Locke

#Children #Men #Blessing

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

#Dream #Philosophical #Use

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

#War #Passion #Men

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

#Fashion #Philosophical #Riches

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

#Philosophical #Parenting #Bitterness

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

#Integrity #Men #Balance

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

#Inspirational #Education #Reading

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

#Character #Color #Hue

Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.
-- John Locke

#Concern

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

#Philosophical #Support #Fortitude

Revolt is the right of the people
-- John Locke

#People #Revolt

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.
-- John Locke

#Truth #Honesty #Perfection

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

#Love #Truth #Science

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.
-- John Locke

#Inspirational #Philosophical #Taken

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

#Dream #Philosophical #Reflection

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
-- John Locke

#Happiness #Two #Mind

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

#Men #Reason #Preservation

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

#Education #Wisdom #Philosophical

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
-- John Locke

#Men #Littles #Information

If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.
-- John Locke

#Government #Law #People

Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit.
-- John Locke

#Christian #War #Men

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

#Mean #Fighting #Opponents

The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs ... has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
-- John Locke

#Age #World #Should

The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.
-- John Locke

#Teaching #Learning #Technology

Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
-- John Locke

#Ideas #Movement #Time Management

For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.
-- John Locke

#Believe #Men #Fleeting

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made.
-- John Locke

#Real #Simple #Views

So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
-- John Locke

#Men #Beast #Should

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
-- John Locke

#Trying #Half #Moments

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.
-- John Locke

#Ideas #Delight #Produce

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

#Philosophical #Long #World

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

#Education #Truth #Philosophical

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
-- John Locke

#Communication #Rude #Currents

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

#Philosophical #Evil #Perspective

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.
-- John Locke

#People #Trying #Needs