John Locke quotes

“Where there is no property there is no injustice.”

— John Locke

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

— John Locke

“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.”

— John Locke

“There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.”

— John Locke

“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.”

— John Locke

“It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.”

— John Locke

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

— John Locke

“The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.”

— John Locke

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

— John Locke

“Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.”

— John Locke

“There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.”

— John Locke

“I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.”

— John Locke

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

— John Locke