Quotes by John Locke

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

“To prejudge other mens notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eye”

“To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.”

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

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

“If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender”

“One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.”

“The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate”

“Simplify, simplify.”

“Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses”

“The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.”

“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence”

“As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.”

“Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.”

“The discipline of desire is the background of character.”

“Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.”

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

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

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

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