John Locke Quotes

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

...but since He gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw form it, it cannot be supposed He meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational (and labour was to be his title to it)...

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.

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

The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

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.

What worries you, masters you.