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John Locke Quotes

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

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Philosopher Quotes
Category:
English Philosopher Quotes
Date of Birth:
August 29, 1632
Date of Death:
October 28, 1704
Nationality:
English
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Select John Locke Quotations:
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
John Locke

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
John Locke

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

What worries you, masters you.
John Locke

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
John Locke

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

All wealth is the product of labor.
John Locke


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