John Locke Quotes

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
John Locke

Time, Path, Same

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.
John Locke

God, Men, Truth

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

Life, Health, Liberty

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
John Locke

Parents, Why, Themselves

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
John Locke

Character, Around, Moral

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke

Men, Best, Thought

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John Locke

Education, Good, Him

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.
John Locke

Freedom, End, Law

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.
John Locke

Finance, Small, Shoes

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke

Knowledge, Mind, Thinking

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.
John Locke

Balance, Excellent, Metal

All wealth is the product of labor.
John Locke

Wealth, Labor, Product

Where there is no property there is no injustice.
John Locke

Injustice, Property

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
John Locke

Men, Passion, Temptation

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.
John Locke

Happy, Mind, Two

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

Knowledge, Experience, Here

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

Men, Learned, Child

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.
John Locke

Great, Cannot, Ocean

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.
John Locke

Men, Eyes, Before

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

Government, End, Property

What worries you, masters you.
John Locke

Masters, Worries

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
John Locke

Trying, Moment, Half

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
John Locke

Person, Himself, Nobody

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

Truth, Him, Put

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
John Locke

Support, Fortitude, Virtues

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: August 29, 1632

Died: October 28, 1704

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