John Locke Quotes

“Thus 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, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

topic:love thought

“That it is no great matter, whether I remove his scruple or no: where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

topic:truth knowledge reason dreams

“When we find out an idea by whose intervention we discover the connexion of two others, this is a revelation from God to us by the voice of reason: for we then come to know a truth that we did not know before.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

topic:truth reason

“Truth scarce ever yet carried it by vote anywhere at its first appearance: new opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. But truth, like gold, is not the less so for...”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

topic:truth

“For untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

topic:truth

“There be other simple ideas which convey themselves into the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection, viz. PLEASURE or DELIGHT, and its opposite, PAIN, or UNEASINESS; POWER; EXISTENCE; UNITY mix with almost all our other Ideas.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

topic:power pain pleasure

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

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

topic:knowledge experience

“It is therefore worth while to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent and moderate our persuasion.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

topic:knowledge opinion

“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

topic:knowledge belief

“Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

topic:knowledge self

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