398 Quotes by John Locke

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss.

Don’t tell me what I can’t do!

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man’s own mind.

Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it.

There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin’d Words.

He that takes away Reason to make way for Revelation puts out the Light of both, as one who pokes out eye to see .

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

It is only practice that improves our minds as well as bodies, and we must expect nothing from our understandings any farther than they are perfected by habits.

Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.