Quotes

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

“The discipline of desire is the background of character.” John Locke

“Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.” John Locke

“All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.” John Locke

“Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.” John Locke

“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.” John Locke

“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.” John Locke

“Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.” John Locke

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

“Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.” John Locke

“It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.” John Locke

“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.” John Locke

“The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.” John Locke

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

“Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.” 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

“There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.” John Locke

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

“It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.” John Locke

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

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

“All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.” John Locke

“Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.” John Locke

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

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

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

“We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.” Clive Staples Lewis

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” Clive Staples Lewis

“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.” Clive Staples Lewis