John Locke

"Praising all alike is praising none."

"The foundation of toleration is the principle that no opinion is worth burning a man at the stake for."

"I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody."

"There is one truth and all other truths are but its branches."

"The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever."

"Govern yourself and you are prepared to govern the world."

"Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom."

"No man is born an artist or a coward; we make ourselves what we are by our daily choices."

"Perfect obedience would be the result of perfect understanding."

"The great source of pleasure is variety."

"True freedom is being able to think and speak without fear."

"History is a witness that rises above the reach of oblivion."

"The scope of knowledge is not bounded by what has already been discovered; it stretches forward to infinite possibility."

"Just government cannot subsist without a good moral foundation."

"We live and learn; every day offers new lessons to those who observe."

"Where there is no property there is no injustice."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited."

"The best of life is conversation and the best of conversation is truth."

"Enthusiasm is the engine of genius."

"Men are rather beholden to what they have heard and believed than to what they have seen."

"All our knowledge begins with sensation, proceeds to reflection, and ends in reason."

"We are pieces of a broken mirror running across the floor, constantly trying to reconnect."

"The education of children is the primary work of civilization."

"That which is striking and sublime in the works of nature and art catches the attention and delights the sense."

"Fear is pain arising from the thought of future evil."

"True happiness is not the fruit of ease and indolence, but of usefulness and virtue."

"Let us tolerate others that they may tolerate us."

"The mind is at first like a blank slate upon which experience writes."

"No wealth is greater than health of body and peace of mind."

"Every man has a property in his own person; this nobody has a right to but himself."