46 Quotations by John Locke
- 21. No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
- 22. One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance th ...
- 23. Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause u ...
- 24. Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
- 25. Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.
- 26. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ...
- 27. Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
- 28. That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In bet ...
- 29. The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- 30. The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- 31. The discipline of desire is the background of character.
- 32. The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
- 33. The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to ...
- 34. The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
- 35. The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
- 36. There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
- 37. There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses ...
- 38. Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and th ...
- 39. To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
- 40. To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone o ...
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