John Locke Quotes about Lying

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Who lies for you will lie against you.

John Locke

Truth, Honesty, Lying

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

John Locke

Art, Lying, Confusing

In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them: but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce at all.

John Locke

Lying, Ideas, Differences

John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.100

It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and search for it as for gold and hid treasure; but he that does so, must have much earth and rubbish, before he gets the pure metal; sand, and pebbles, and dross usually lie blended with it, but the gold is nevertheless gold, and will enrich the man that employs his pains to seek and separate it.

John Locke

Pain, Lying, Men

John Locke (1727). “The Works of John Locke”, p.392

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

John Locke

Art, Lying, Men

John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.373

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.

John Locke

Lying, Government, Atheism

John Locke (1796). “A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.10

Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.

John Locke

Truth, Lying, Men

John Locke (2012). “The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.165, Courier Corporation

Had you or I been born at the Bay of Soldania, possibly our Thoughts, and Notions, had not exceeded those brutish ones of the Hotentots that inhabit there: And had the Virginia King Apochancana, been educated in England, he had, perhaps been as knowing a Divine, and as good a Mathematician as any in it. The difference between him, and a more improved English-man, lying barely in this, That the exercise of his Facilities was bounded within the Ways, Modes, and Notions of his own Country, and never directed to any other or farther Enquiries.

John Locke

Country, Kings, Lying

The Commonwealth of Learning is not at this time without Master-Builders, whose mighty Designs, in advancing the Sciences, will leave lasting Monuments to the Admiration of Posterity; But every one must not hope to be a Boyle, or a Sydenham; and in an Age that produces such Masters, as the Great-Huygenius, and the incomparable Mr. Newton, with some other of that Strain; 'tis Ambition enough to be employed as an Under-Labourer in clearing Ground a little, and removing some of the Rubbish, that lies in the way to Knowledge.

John Locke

Lying, Learning, Ambition

John Locke (1854). “The Works of John Locke: Philosophical Works, with a Preliminary Essay and Notes by J. A. St. John”, p.121

It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.

John Locke

Lying, Ambition, Littles

John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.9

Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds; I am apt to think, the fault is generally mislaid upon nature, and there is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in want of a due improvement of them.

John Locke

Lying, Men, Thinking

John Locke (2007). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: (Including Of the Conduct of the Understanding)”, p.192, Courier Corporation