398 Quotes by John Locke

The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them – capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.

Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others.

All mankind being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided

A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day, but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him

It is difficult to instruct children because of their natural inattention; the true mode, of course, is to first make our modes interesting to them.