John Locke Quotes



        “As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
-John Locke


        “The only defence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.” 
- John Locke

       “There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.” 
- John Locke

       “I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.” 
- John Locke

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

         “We are like chameleons; we take our hue and the colour of our moral character, from those who are around us.” 
- John Locke

        “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.” 
- John Locke

         “Revolt is the right of the people” 
- John Locke

       “How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?” 
- John Locke

        “Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.” 
- John Locke

       “No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.” 
- John Locke

        “Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.” 
- John Locke

      “Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.” 
- John Locke

        “There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.” 
- John Locke

        “Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.” 
- John Locke,

       “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.” 
- John Locke

       “Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.” 
- John Locke

       “Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.” 
- John Locke

        “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.” 
- John Locke

       “The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.” 
- John Locke


       “All wealth is the product of labour.” 
- John Locke

        “Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.” 
- John Locke

         “In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity"
- John Locke

        “I close my eyes, take a deep breath, and let it out completely, along with my soul.”
- John Locke,

        “New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.” 
- John Locke


        “I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
-John Locke


        “What worries you, masters you.
-John Locke


        “No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
-John Locke


       “Where there is no property there is no injustice.
-John Locke


        “Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
-John Locke


       “Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
-John Locke


       “Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
-John Locke


        “I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
-John Locke


        “The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
-John Locke


        “There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
-John Locke


        “New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
-John Locke

         “The discipline of desire is the background of character.
-John Locke

        “The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
-John Locke

        “The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
-John Locke


        “It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
-John Locke