Quotes by John Locke

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

— John Locke

Freedom

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.

— John Locke

Freedom

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

— John Locke

Wisdom

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

— John Locke

Education

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

— John Locke

Wisdom

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

— John Locke

Truth

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

— John Locke

Education

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

— John Locke

Education

All wealth is the product of labor.

— John Locke

Wisdom

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

— John Locke

Wisdom

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

— John Locke

Wisdom

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

— John Locke

Wisdom

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

— John Locke

Wisdom

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

— John Locke

Wisdom

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

— John Locke

Education

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

— John Locke

Love

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

— John Locke

Wisdom

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

— John Locke

Wisdom

What worries you, masters you.

— John Locke

Wisdom

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

— John Locke

Wisdom

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

— John Locke

Wisdom

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

— John Locke

Truth

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

— John Locke

Wisdom

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

— John Locke

Wisdom