John Locke Quotes - Page 2

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

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 legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.

How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

Revolt is the right of the people

Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

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.

Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.

Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.

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

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

When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.

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.

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?

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.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression