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. -John Locke Great
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. -John Locke Good
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. -John Locke Life
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. -John Locke Society
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. -John Locke Education
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. -John Locke Men
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state. -John Locke Change
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. -John Locke Knowledge
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. -John Locke Truth
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. -John Locke Alone
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 Truth
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. -John Locke Knowledge
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. -John Locke Finance
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. -John Locke Truth
