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Who lies for you will lie against you.

John Locke

Truth, Honesty, Lying

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

John Locke

Education, Truth, Philosophical

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding bk. 4, ch. 7, sec. 11 (1690)

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

Truth, Honesty, Perfection

John Locke (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)”, p.3064, Delphi Classics

Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God. . . .

John Locke

Truth, Father, Light

'An Essay concerning Human Understanding' (1690) bk. 4, ch. 19, sect. 4

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

Love, Truth, Science

As paraphrased in "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 500), 1979.

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

Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason.

John Locke

Truth, Judging, Mind

John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.530

Truth then seems to me, in the proper import of the word, to signify nothing but the joining or separating of Signs, as the Things signified by them do agree or disagree one with another. The joining or separating of signs here meant, is what by another name we call proposition. So that truth properly belongs only to propositions: whereof there are two sorts, viz. mental and verbal; as there are two sorts of signs commonly made use of, viz. ideas and words.

John Locke

Truth, Agreement, Names

John Locke (2015). “An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Volume 2: Top Essays”, p.151, 谷月社