Quotes By 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.

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

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.

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

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

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.

What worries you, masters you.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

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.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

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.