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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

Contentment
2

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

John Locke

Self-esteem
3

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

John Locke

Fashion
4

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.

John Locke

Government
5

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

John Locke

Humankind
6

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

John Locke

Government
7

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

John Locke

Ask
8

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke

Thoughts and Thinking
9

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

John Locke

Teachers and Teaching
10

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

John Locke

Logic
11

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

John Locke

Opinions
12

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

John Locke

Experience
13

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

Truth
14

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

John Locke

Parents and Parenting
15

Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

John Locke

Habit
16

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

John Locke

Books and Reading
17

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

John Locke

Reverie
18

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke

Action
19

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

John Locke

Desire
20

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

John Locke

Understanding
21

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

John Locke

Education
22

The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.

John Locke

Miracle
23

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

John Locke

Communication
24

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

John Locke

Learning
25

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

John Locke

Morality
26

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.

John Locke

Neighbors
27

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

John Locke

Knowledge
28

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

John Locke

Influence
29

We should have a great many 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

Words
30

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

John Locke

Property

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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.

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

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

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.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

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

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

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

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

The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.

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

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

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.

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

We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.