Famous John Locke Quotes

  • [M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road. – John Locke

    [M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.– John Locke

  • I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. – John Locke

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

  • The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. – John Locke

    The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.– John Locke

  • Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions. – John Locke

    Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.– John Locke

  • When we find out an Idea, by whose Intervention we discover the Connexion of two others, this is a Revelation from God to us, by the voice of Reason. – John Locke

    When we find out an Idea, by whose Intervention we discover the Connexion of two others, this is a Revelation from God to us, by the voice of Reason.– John Locke

  • 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. – John Locke

    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.– John Locke

  • What worries you, masters you. – John Locke

    What worries you, masters you.– John Locke

  • Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. – John Locke

    Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.– John Locke