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, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
― John Locke

“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.”
― John Locke

“The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”
― John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education

“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.”
― John Locke

“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.”
― 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

“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.”
― John Locke

“How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?”
― John Locke, Lethal People

“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”
― John Locke, Second Treatise of Government

“Revolt is the right of the people”
― John Locke

“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
― John Locke

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

“What worries you, masters you.”
― John Locke

“So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.”
― 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, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!”
― John Locke

“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.”
― John Locke

“Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.”
― John Locke, Vegas Moon

“For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.”
― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“All wealth is the product of labor.”
― John Locke