Mind Quotes by John Locke

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

— John Locke

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

— John Locke

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

— John Locke

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

— John Locke

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

— John Locke

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

— John Locke

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

— 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

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and…

— John Locke

The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with…

— John Locke

Set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business, for it holds in the struggles of the mind,…

— John Locke

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside…

— John Locke

Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay…

— John Locke

For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite…

— John Locke

Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders,…

— John Locke

The mind being, as I have declared, furnished with a great number of the simple ideas conveyed in by the senses, as…

— John Locke

The first step to get this noble and manly steadiness, is... carefully keep children from frights of all kinds, when they are…

— John Locke

Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some…

— John Locke

These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as…

— John Locke

Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth…

— John Locke

Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are…

— John Locke

“A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that…

— John Locke

Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas,…

— John Locke

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought…

— John Locke

A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask…

— John Locke

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

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas…

— 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

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

— John Locke

When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

— John Locke

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we…

— John Locke

Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to…

— John Locke

Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has…

— John Locke

The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and…

— John Locke

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

— John Locke

“For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can…

— John Locke

Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it…

— John Locke

Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose…

— John Locke

He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love…

— John Locke

Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds;…

— John Locke