Best John Locke Quotes
- Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. Fortitude
- I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. Express
- The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. Action
- There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. Communication
- New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. Already Common
- 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,… Anything Else
- 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. Any
- The discipline of desire is the background of character. Background
- The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. Deliver
- The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. Enter
- The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. Education
- Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. Dream
- 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… Disputes
- Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. All
- It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach. Command
- Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state. Change
- 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… Absent
- Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. Fashion
- 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… All
- 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
- 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… All
- 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… Appear
- Revolt is the right of the people Inspirational
- 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. All
- 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… Abstraction