57 result(s) for John Locke Quotes.
"Truth scarce ever yet carried it by vote anywhere at its first appearance: new opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common."
"All wealth is the product of labour."
"The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation."
"All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue."
"What worries you, masters you."
"Tis 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."
"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this World."
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"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this World."
"Education is the best provision for old age."
"Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him."
"There cannot be a greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse."
"The discipline of desire is the background of character."
"Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others."
"The business of the understanding is not to prove, but to improve truths."
"Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered."
"We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us."
"The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make others comprehend what we know."
"The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others."
"Where there is no property, there is no injustice."
"Every man has a property in his own person: this nobody has any right to but himself."
"All wealth is the product of labor."
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"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."
"The only thing that is ours is our own mind and how we use it."
"The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property."
"There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men."
"All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions."
"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common."
"Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing."
"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."
"Tis a common observation, that instances of kind treatment, and other evidence of kindness, draw people more effectually than any thing, even of the same kind... We love to be noticed or commended and to be assured we have done well."
"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."
"Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses."
"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
"In finding i have indeed great reason to pride myself, I want to always remember how many men have been slaves to all sorts of desires."
"There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason."
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"Passion will take advantage of the easiness of the way as well as of the roughness. A soft thing is a temptation to a raging wave, as well as the rocks, they are both therefore to be equally avoided."
"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."
"The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."
"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this world."
"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."
"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common."
"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."
"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."
"Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him."
"He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large portion of it to recreation."
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
"No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
"Patience is the foundation of liberty. We must all practice it."
"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom."
"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."
"All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions."
"The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good."
"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain."
"Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues."
"I have always found that to regard anything as a proof of our own abilities, is a mistake."
"No man’s knowledge can go beyond his experience."
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