Locke, John

"God created the world; the great art is to know it."

"Nature never wears one face continually."

"Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper void of all characters."

"There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason."

"The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its disorders."

"Those who are in the highest stations have the most need of knowledge."

"All certainty arises from comparison of ideas."

"I cared for being rich, I cared for being great, but now I only care for being honest."

"Money is not the measure of all things."

"The faculty of repetition has not been that of the multiply, the best faculty."

"Revolutions happen in men's minds."

"We are all liable to error."

"There is often some sickness in those minds that are too much taken up with the consideration of what others think of them."

"Men are not to be measured by their professions but by their practice."

"Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature."

"Our advancing years do naturally accustom our bodies to decreasing nutrition."

"The dull necessity of busying ourselves with the means of living well."

"There is an art to every useful thing."

"The acts of the mind are chiefly volitions and perceptions, or thoughts."

"It is one thing to make an idea clear and another to make it distinct."

"Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of."

"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 taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all."

"True freedom is the power to do what you ought."

"A person is himself to himself not by continuity of substance but by continuity of consciousness."

"Not the least of the qualities that go towards making a gentleman is a certain urbanity and compliance with the customs of those we are amongst."

"The understanding like the eye, judging of objects only by its own sight, must be blind to all that lies beyond its ken."

"He that will make a good use of any part of his life must allow a large portion of it to recreation."

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

"The two things that command respect in the world are intellectual power and moral worth."