Top 15 John Locke Quotes

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

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

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

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.

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.

All wealth is the product of labor.