20+ John Locke Quotes to Help you Think Without Prejudice

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

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

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

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

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.

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

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

It is labor indeed that puts the difference on everything.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

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 discipline of desire is the background of character.

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

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.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

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

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.