Well known John Locke Quotes

John Locke was an English philosopher and physician. He one of the most influential enlightenment thinkers. He was born on 29 August 1632 in Wrington in the united states. He was guided by Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, Aristotle, Plato, Francis Bacon, Baruch Spinoza, Thomas equines, Cicero, Hugo Grotius, Avicenna, and more. He was known as the "father of liberalism". Locke's political theory was founded on social contract theory. He believed that human nature allowed people to be selfish. Locke's fundamental natural rights, he said, are "life, liberty, and property. He was never married nor had children. He died on 28 October 1704 in Essex, united kingdom.

Here, some quotes by him will be based on freedom, education, property, and government so it can give you strength and passion. That will be inspiring you to become a successful man.

"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to but himself." -John Locke

"All wealth is the product of labor." -John Locke

"Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues." -John Locke

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." -John Locke

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

"What worries you, masters, you." -John Locke

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

"Government has no other end, but the preservation of property." -John Locke

"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of laws, where there is no law, there is no freedom." -John Locke

"Education beings the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him." -John Locke

"Fashion, for the most part, is nothing but the ostentation of riches." -John Locke

"As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path a appears." -John Locke

"There can not be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse." -John Locke

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

"Where all is but a dream, reasoning, and arguments are of no use, truth, and knowledge nothing." -John Locke

"Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct." -John Locke

"Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent." -John Locke

"We are born to be if we please rational creatures, but it is the use and exercise only that makes us so." -John Locke

"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it." -John Locke

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

"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

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

"Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time." -John Locke

"An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards, and downwards." -John Locke

"It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach." -John Locke

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

"To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to out our own eyes." -John Locke

"The bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has god for its tutor; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure." -John Locke

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

"Where there is no property, there is no injustice." -John Locke

"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

"I have spent more than half of a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment." -John Locke

"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter when they themselves have poisoned the fountain." -John Locke