398 Quotes by John Locke

I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.

We just want to show the people of this town what the benefits are.

Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been pleased to place us in here; wherein, to check our over-confidence and presumption, we might, by every day's experience, be made sensible of our short-sightedness, and liableness to error.

There being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species should be equal amongst one another without subordination or subjection

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.

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

Long discourses, and philosophical readings, at best, amaze and confound, but do not instruct children. When I say, therefore, that they must be treated as rational creatures, I mean that you must make them sensible, by the mildness of your carriage, and in the composure even in the correction of them, that what you do is reasonable in you, and useful and necessary for them; and that it is not out of caprichio , passion or fancy, that you command or forbid them any thing.

It is so vital to everybody who has a stake in the downtown. It is vital to anyone who lives here. It is going to put us on the map.