John Locke Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Truth, whether in or out of fashion, is the measure ef knowledge, and the business of the understanding; whatsoever is beside that, however authorized by consent, or recommended by rarity, is nothing but ignorance, or something worse.
[Truth]
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Virtue and talents, though allowed their due consideration, yet are not enough to procure a man a welcome wherever he comes. Nobody contents himself with rough diamonds, or wears them so. When polished and set, then they give a lustre.
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We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.
[Society]
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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.
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What worries you, masters you.
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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
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Where there is no property there is no injustice.
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Wit consists in assembling, and putting together with quickness, ideas in which can be found resemblance and congruity, by which to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy.
[Wit]
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