John Locke quotes Born: 08/29/1632 Died: 10/28/1704 Country: united_kingdom

• Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. (John Locke) [reading/mind/knowledge/thinking]
• Where there is no desire, there will be no industry. (John Locke) [desire/willpower]
• Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. (John Locke) [fashion]
• The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. (John Locke) [knowledge]
• 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)
• Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule. (John Locke) [habit]
• The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. (John Locke) [men/thoughts]
• Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. (John Locke) [parents/wonder]
• The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. (John Locke) [men/society/property]
• Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. (John Locke) [government/start/property]
• Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. (John Locke) [property/right]
• Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others. (John Locke)
• We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. (John Locke) [take/color/character]
• Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. (John Locke) [reading/mind/knowledge/thinking]
• The discipline of desire is the background of character. (John Locke) [discipline/desire/character]
• There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. (John Locke) [rudeness]
• Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man. (John Locke) [men/government/society/power]
• Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. (John Locke) [government/start/property]
• Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule. (John Locke) [habit]
• Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. (John Locke) [fashion]
• Logic is the anatomy of thought. (John Locke) [logic/anatomy]
• Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing. (John Locke) [understanding/men/reading]
• Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge. (John Locke) [speech/abuse/language/science]
• We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. (John Locke) [take/color/character]
• Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided. (John Locke) [evil/punishment/mankind]
• Where there is no property there is no injustice. (John Locke) [property]
• To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament. (John Locke) [give/knowledge/]
• New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. (John Locke)
• 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/human/society]
• Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. (John Locke) [parents/wonder]
• The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation. (John Locke) [wisdom/power/creation]

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