Best John Locke Sayings
- 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;… Action
- Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct. All
- Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you. Coming
- How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them? Been
- 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… All
- The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs ... has been, not whether… Age
- Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the… All
- I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly; and where it fails them, they cry out, It… Cry
- I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet. Armless
- Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly… Greatly
- He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss Acquit
- For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest,… Agent
- Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set… All
- Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight. Aside
- Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little… Abuse
- Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely… Constantly
- Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others Free
- Logic is the anatomy of thought Anatomy
- But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression Commotion
- The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have Any
- Ll men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. Error
- It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving where in men find pleasure to be deceived. Arts
- Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistakeof our judgment, giving… Assent
- Whensoever we would proceed beyond [the] simple ideas we have from sensation and reflection, and dive farther into the nature of things, we fall presently… Beyond