John Locke
John Locke was an influential English philosopher and social contract theorist
13 quotes.
Quotes by John Locke
- Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.
- Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
- 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.
- Kind words prevent a good deal of that perverseness which rough and imperious usage often produces in generous minds.
- Man should let alone other's prejudices and examine his own.
- Nobody contents himself with rough diamonds, or wears them so. When polished and set, then they give a lustre.
- Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
- Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours.
- Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. So far as we apprehend and see the connection of ideas, so far it is ours; without that it is so much loose matter floating in our brain.
- The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- The best way to come to truth is to examine things as they really are, and not to conclude they are, as we have been taught by others to imagine.
- The great art of learning, is to undertake but little at a time.
- There cannot be a greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.