John Locke Quotes

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

John Locke

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

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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

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

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

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

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

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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

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Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

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The discipline of desire is the background of character.

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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing

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Affection endeavors to correct natural defects, and has always the laudable aim of pleasing, though it always misses it.

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

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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

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