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"38 John Locke Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 29 August 1632. Died: 28 October 1704 | Philosopher |

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

Equal Life Harm Health
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

Abolish Beings Capable Created
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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 Enable Ends First
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

End Government Other Preservation
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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 social morality.

Alone Cases Determine Human
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No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
Beyond Experience Go Here
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Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

Every Every Man Himself His
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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

Begins Company Education Finish
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We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

Around Character Color Hue
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
Fashion Most Nothing Part
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It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
Command Easier Teach Than
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The discipline of desire is the background of character.
Background Character Desire Discipline
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Against Fence Knowledge Only
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Where there is no property there is no injustice.

Injustice Property Where There
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All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Error Interest Liable Many
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

Fortitude Guard Other Support
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Actions Always Best Men
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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 not for things themselves.

Disputes Fewer Great Ideas
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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

Always Balance Every Excellent
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All wealth is the product of labor.

Labor Product Wealth All
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Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

Cause Gall Incomes Large
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

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

Knowledge Makes Materials Mind
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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

Cannot Depths Fathom Great
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The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

Enter Men Preservation Property
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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.

Before Darkness Eyes Looked
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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, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

Anything Anything Else Better Body
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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 of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

Ashamed Ask Attribute Been
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

Another Cannot Current Discourse
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Bitter Fountain Parents Poisoned
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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 Assurance Built Entertaining
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

Always Any Because Common
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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
Appears Path People Same
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

Child Frequently Learned Men
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

Another Error He Him
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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 idea we call love.

Absent Any Apt Call
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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

Any Author Bestowed Bible
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

Constant Flux Long Nothing
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John Locke Quotes & Sayings