Quotes by 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.

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

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

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.

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

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

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.

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.

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

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.