Locke, John

"Integrity may be admired and praised, but it loses out every day against self-interest."

"The want of discipline does more harm than want of talent."

"Man has as much right to say an unpleasant thing as to think it."

"Gold and silver have value only in proportion to their quantity."

"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress."

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."

"The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others."

"Such is the nature of man that no one attribute can be said to be evidently predominant or supreme."

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

"The mind has its own light."

"Confusion being a disorder of the mind, we must chiefly work to clear it."

"The candle that is lit in us shines within, if we do not cover it."

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

"The floating of my thoughts would be lost, like ships without pilots, if I did not write them down."

"Habits, whether good or bad, are not easily broken."

"The great art of learning is to undertake but one thing at a time."

"Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues."

"Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others."

"We are born ignorant, not stupid; we are made stupid by education."

"The discipline of desire is the background of character."

"Curiosity is but the desire of knowledge."

"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state."

"The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects."

"The parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain."

"Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered."

"All things are provided by nature; all we need do is learn to use them."

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

"The art is long; life is short; opportunity is fleeting; experiment is treacherous; judgment is difficult."

"Peace is more valuable than all the world, and all that is in it."

"To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society."