To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
John Locke
We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
John Locke
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
John Locke
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
John Locke
Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.
John Locke
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth.
John Locke
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
John Locke
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.