Words matter. These are the best John Locke Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
What worries you, masters you.
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
