398 Quotes by John Locke

All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man’s self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.

To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

The difference, so observable in men’s understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

Revolt is the right of the people.

Merit and good works is the end of man’s motion; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man’s rest; for if a man can be partaker of God’s theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God’s rest.

One hundred and one. No person above seventeen years of age shall have any benefit or protection of the law, or be capable of any place of profit or honor, who is not a member of some church or profession, having his name recorded in some one, and but one religious record at once.

To prejudge other men’s notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

The better to understand the nature, manner, and extent of our knowledge, one thing is carefully to be observed concerning the ideas we have; and that is, that some of them are simple and some complex.

Justice and truth are the common ties of society.