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Quotes By John Locke

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

John Locke

Change

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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke

Education, Learning, Thinking

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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary rule of another man.

John Locke

Freedom, Liberty

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Tenaya Lake, Yosemite National Park

What worries you, masters you.

John Locke

Solitude, Thinking

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Oceanside, Oregon

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

John Locke

Passion

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Olympic National Park

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.

John Locke

Truth

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Crater Lake National Park

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

John Locke

Knowledge

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Olympic National Park

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

John Locke

Happiness, Health

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Olympic National Park

No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

John Locke

Experience, Knowledge

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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

John Locke

Society, Thinking

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Lake Tahoe

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

John Locke

Money

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

John Locke

Motivation, Work

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Lake Tahoe

Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.

John Locke

Knowledge, Values, Virtue

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Arches National Park

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke

Action, Thinking

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Grand Prismatic, Yellowstone National Park

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

John Locke

Character, Desire, Discipline

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