John Locke quotes

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach. (John Locke)
Logic is the anatomy of thought.
John Locke
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
John Locke
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. (John Locke)
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.
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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.
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What worries you, masters you.
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Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.
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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.
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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Religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. (John Locke)
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
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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.
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.
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The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.
John Locke