John Locke Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.”

“Where there is no property there is no injustice.”

“It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.”

“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 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.”

“The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.”

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

“I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.”

“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.”

“Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.”