Quotes from John Locke

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

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

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

Revolt is the right of the people

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

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

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, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!

So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.

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.

All wealth is the product of labor.

The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs ... has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.

For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.

What worries you masters you.

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

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 better for anything else.

Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

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.

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

Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit.

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

What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.