I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural. — John Locke Copy Share Image
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in… — John Locke Copy Share Image
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of… — John Locke Copy Share Image
He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Earthly minds, like mud-walls, resist the strongest batteries: And though perhaps sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“[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… — John Locke Copy Share Image
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Earthly minds, like mud-walls, resist the strongest batteries: And though perhaps sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“To avoid this state of war (wherein there is no appeal but to heaven, and wherein every the least difference is apt to end,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“don’t let the things you don’t have prevent you from using the things you do have.” — John Locke Copy Share Image