John Locke Quotes

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
John Locke

Good, Evil, Human

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

Reason, Opinions, Common

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

Cannot, Another, Greater

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

Men, Society, Why

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.
John Locke

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
John Locke

Mind, Reflection, Ideas

The discipline of desire is the background of character.
John Locke

Character, Desire, Discipline

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

Knowledge, Two, Others

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
John Locke

Knowledge, Against, Fence

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke

Great, Words, Themselves

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

Teach, Command, Easier

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.
John Locke

Love, Truth, Greater

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, Truth, Society

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
John Locke

Love, Him, Thought

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
John Locke

Nothing, Fashion, Riches

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
John Locke

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
John Locke

Long, Nothing, Same

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

Truth, Knowledge, Nothing

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: August 29, 1632

Died: October 28, 1704

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