398 Quotes by John Locke

If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.

Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.

Try all things, hold fast that which is good.

How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?

Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without them.

Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.

The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.

The next thing is by gentle degrees to accustom children to those things they are too much afraid of. But here great caution is to be used, that you do not make too much haste, nor attempt this cure too early, for fear lest you increase the mischief instead of remedying it.

Laws provide, as much as ispossible that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and violence of others. They do not guard them from thenegligence or ill-husbandry of the possessors themselves.