Quotes from John Locke

All men are liable to error; and most men are ... by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

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.

It is a man's proper business to seek happiness and avoid misery.

To give a man full knowledge of true morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

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

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

All wealth is the product of labor

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

The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

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

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.

When Ideas float in our Mind, without any Reflection or Regard of the Understanding, it is that, which the French call Reverie; our Language has scarce a Name for it...

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

He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

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.

Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind.

God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.