Our list of John Locke Quotes
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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The John Locke's quote says that the only defense against the world is a deep knowledge of it.
Knowing what is around us and how to deal with the world is very important for life, even to succeed in our goals.
We can use the fact that we know the outside world to our advantage.
The only way to have this knowledge is to bring patience and experience during our lives or by confronting many realities and people.
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.
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The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
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What worries you, masters you.
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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
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Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
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The discipline of desire is the background of character.
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No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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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.
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
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A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
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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.
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
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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.
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Where there is no property there is no injustice.
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We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
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The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
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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.
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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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.
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All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
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It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
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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.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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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.
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The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
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Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
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Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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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.
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
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The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.
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Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
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To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
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Revolt is the right of the people.
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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, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!
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