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John Locke: Quotes

  • Action
    I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • Error
    All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • Error
    It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth.John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • Health and Fitness
    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.John Locke: Some Thoughts Concerning Education
  • Judgment
    He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss.John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • Opinion
    New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • Thought
    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
  • Tyranny
    Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.John Locke: Second Treatise of Government