Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What worries you, masters you.
John Locke
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
Philosopher
Physician
Politician
Writer
Wrington
Somerset
Masters
Courage
Worry
Inspirational
Worries
Life
Empowerment
Perseverance
Adversity
Philosophical
More quotes by John Locke
When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
John Locke
If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.
John Locke
Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it
John Locke
He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
John Locke
Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
John Locke
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
John Locke
The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.
John Locke
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
John Locke
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
John Locke
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
John Locke
The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.
John Locke
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
John Locke
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
John Locke
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
John Locke
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke
General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny.
John Locke
Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.
John Locke
In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.
John Locke
Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have.
John Locke
Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows.
John Locke
