John Locke Quotes

John Locke Quotes.

The people cannot delegate to government the power to d

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
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
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
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
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
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John Locke
The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.
John Locke
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
John Locke
As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.
John Locke
What worries you, masters you.
John Locke
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
John Locke
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
John Locke
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
John Locke
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
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.
John Locke
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
John Locke

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