46 Quotations by John Locke
- 1. A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he th ...
- 2. All men are liable to error; and most men are... by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
- 3. All wealth is the product of labor.
- 4. An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a ba ...
- 5. As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
- 6. Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon thems ...
- 7. Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the f ...
- 8. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
- 9. Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
- 10. Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that s ...
- 11. Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spu ...
- 12. Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
- 13. I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule o ...
- 14. I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- 15. I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
- 16. It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
- 17. It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr ...
- 18. Logic is the anatomy of thought.
- 19. New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they ar ...
- 20. New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they ar ...
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