John Locke Quotes
59 John Locke quotes:
"Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing."
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"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself."
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"We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us."
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"Government has no other end, but the preservation of property."
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"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."
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"There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education."
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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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"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common."
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"I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment."
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"The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good."
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"For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no farther than is for the general good of those under the law"
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"All wealth is the product of labor."
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"The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property."
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"There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse."
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"Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding."
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"Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man."
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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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"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."
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"The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others"
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