John Locke

"Establish yourself in ways of pleasantness and all things will be added unto you."

"The great art of learning is to understand but little at a time."

"All mankind consists of three sorts of people: those who learn by reading, those who learn by observation, and the vast majority who learn by experience."

"We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep."

"Whoever is capable of knowing anything is capable of knowing that he knows it."

"The dread and fear of punishments is the motive which holds men in obedience."

"Truth is the property of being in accord with fact or reality."

"Method and industry restore to them all that had been lost to them by accident."

"The foundation of justice is good faith."

"Wandering in a vast forest at night, I would follow a distant light to guide me out, and afterward take that light to guide my path."

"God, having designed man for a sociable creature, made him unfit to live alone."

"Knowledge is power only when put to use."

"The want of something to do is a most dreadful want to men."

"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."

"I am not at all in humor for talking; it looks like rain."

"Words in their primary or immediate signification stand for nothing but ideas in the mind of him who uses them."

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

"To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world."

"The first step towards greatness is to be honest."

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"As long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long is he determined not to do it."

"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom."

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

"Time is the register of all changes, the measure of all motion."

"God has been pleased to give us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue; to the end we should hear and see more than we speak."

"I have no reverence for authority; I have only reverence for truth."

"The rise and progress of science is the index of the rise and progress of civilization."

"Learning is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire."

"He who would do good to his country must have principles."

"The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life is the disagreement between the reality of our condition and our expectations."