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Find important quotes and citations by the author John Locke.
Quote 2947
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we haveMore quotes on the topics: thoughts ideas fortune mind value chance
Quote 2946
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to othersMore quotes on the topics: improvement understanding reason knowledge ability
Quote 2945
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 freedomMore quotes on the topics: law freedom liberty protection
Quote 2944
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourseMore quotes on the topics: interruption discussion errors speech
Quote 2943
Logic is the anatomy of thoughtQuote 2942
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experienceMore quotes on the topics: knowledge experience advantage
Quote 2941
Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from othersQuote 2940
Wherever law ends, tyranny beginsQuote 2939
The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrateMore quotes on the topics: soul carefulness
Quote 2938
The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creationMore quotes on the topics: sign wisdom power appearance nature
Quote 2937
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 obeyedQuote 2936
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.More quotes on the topics: learning experience education discussion prejudices worth
Quote 2935
Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no usesMore quotes on the topics: nature opportunity superficiality indifference performance
Quote 2934
Where there is no property there is no injusticeMore quotes on the topics: property richness injustice opportunity
Quote 2933
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.More quotes on the topics: fashion richness bragging worthlessness
Quote 2932
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, every hour, rushes by. There is no timeMore quotes on the topics: activity time troubles transience decision
Quote 2931
If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offenderMore quotes on the topics: punishment willpower self-development sense
Quote 2930
All wealth is the product of labor.More quotes on the topics: reason wealth richness reward work effort
Quote 2929
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truthMore quotes on the topics: errors knowledge possession truth sense
Quote 2928
To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.Quote 2927
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to itMore quotes on the topics: liabilities errors passion interest mankind
Quote 2926
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwardsMore quotes on the topics: character changes conviction resistance
Quote 2925
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppressionQuote 2924
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of itMore quotes on the topics: protection world knowledge wisdom
Quote 2923
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic momentQuote 2922
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their propertyQuote 2921
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already commonMore quotes on the topics: progress ideas opinion opponent reason habit
Quote 2920
To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyeMore quotes on the topics: prejudices attention mind ideas superficiality
Quote 2919
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.Quote 2918
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.More quotes on the topics: dependence morality character imitation
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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amissMore quotes on the topics: judgment information knowledge errors superficiality conviction justice
Quote 2916
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of goodMore quotes on the topics: evil fear principle action reason
Quote 2915
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish himMore quotes on the topics: character education self-development imperfection perfection company fellowship
Quote 2914
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.More quotes on the topics: neighbourhood harmony tolerance truth society determination morality
Quote 2913
What worries you, masters youMore quotes on the topics: self-development troubles education experience
Quote 2912
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountainMore quotes on the topics: education parents problems causes children troubles
Quote 2911
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 themselvesMore quotes on the topics: disputes world sign ideas harmony troubles understanding
Quote 2910
The discipline of desire is the background of character.Quote 2909
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtuesMore quotes on the topics: truth perfection world virtue
Quote 2908
Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.More quotes on the topics: practice habit rules indifference
Quote 2907
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.More quotes on the topics: fortitude support virtue character
Quote 2906
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrantQuote 2905
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 on work, and guidedMore quotes on the topics: goodness evil reward punishment reason dependence mankind
Quote 2904
Nobody is going to let anybody's children play on something that is unsafe. There is just no wayMore quotes on the topics: safety games security children responsibility caution
Quote 2903
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglectedMore quotes on the topics: errors truth generality value
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.More quotes on the topics: thoughts action opinion dependence
Quote 1171
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