398 Quotes by John Locke

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.

The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings.

I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.

When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success...

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities.

Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.