John Locke Quotes & Quotations

John Locke Quotes

» The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

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

» 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.

» 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.

» Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

» There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

» The discipline of desire is the background of character.

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

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

» Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.

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