398 Quotes by John Locke

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.

If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.

The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.