Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice. — John Locke

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity. — John Locke

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. — John Locke

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty. — John Locke

Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them. — John Locke

The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them–capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it. — John Locke

For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on. — John Locke

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. — John Locke

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man’s own mind. — John Locke

A sound mind in A sound body is A short but full description of A hAppy stAte in this world. — 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 punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender. — John Locke

The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them. — John Locke

Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men. — John Locke

Set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business, for it holds in the struggles of the mind, as in those of war, that to think we shall conquer is to conquer. — John Locke

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses. — John Locke

What worries you masters you. — John Locke

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

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

In the beginning, all the world was America. — John Locke

He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly. — John Locke

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

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us. — John Locke

That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature. — John Locke

Curiosity should be as carefully cherish’d in children, as other appetites suppress’d. — John Locke

We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear. — John Locke

Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge. — John Locke

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example. — John Locke

Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain. — John Locke

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

Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain. — John Locke

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

Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives. — John Locke

No man’s kNowledge here can go beyond his experience. — John Locke

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. — John Locke

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes. — John Locke

If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. — 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. — John Locke

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament. — John Locke

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true. — John Locke

It is ambition enough to be employed as an under–labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge. — John Locke

What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason? — John Locke

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common. — John Locke

Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything. — John Locke

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer. — John Locke

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. — John Locke

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it. — John Locke

I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason. — John Locke

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

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity’ Ch.2, 8 — John Locke

Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself. — John Locke

The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time. — John Locke

To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing. — John Locke

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. — John Locke

Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind. — John Locke

I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet. — John Locke

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. — John Locke

Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas. — John Locke

He that makes use of another’s fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him. — John Locke

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves. — John Locke

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves. — John Locke

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else. — John Locke

As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to. — John Locke

The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it. — John Locke

Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common–wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure. — John Locke

It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection. — John Locke

Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all. — John Locke

Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent. — John Locke

Methinks Sir Robert should have carried his Monarchical Power one step higher and satisfied the World, that Princes might eat their Subjects too. — John Locke

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight. — John Locke

The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all The works of creation. — John Locke

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under The will or legislative authority of man, but to have only The law of nature for his rule. — 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

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it. — John Locke

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. — John Locke

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

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. — John Locke

Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture. — John Locke

If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love. — John Locke