John Locke Quotes

"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."
-John Locke

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

"All wealth is the product of labor."
-John Locke

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

"The discipline of desire is the background of character."
-John Locke

"If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly."
-John Locke

"Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One 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."
-John Locke

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

"Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them."
-John Locke

"Man... hath by nature a power.... to preserve his property - that is, his life, liberty, and estate - against the injuries and attempts of other men."
-John Locke

"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 guided."
-John Locke

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

"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common."
-John Locke

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

"The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good."
-John Locke

"There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse."
-John Locke

"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world."
-John Locke in Body quotes.

"Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing."
-John Locke

"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