Locke, John

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

"A patient mind is a powerful mind."

"The death of one man is a tragedy; the death of a thousand is but a statistic."

"The proper object of education is to make rational creatures virtuous and happy."

"In the state of nature, there is no injustice, for injustice is the absence of law."

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man insists on adapting the world to himself."

"Light is not created by the darkness; it simply dispels it."

"Where there is property, there may be injustice; where there is law, there may be order."

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

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

"He that would seriously set upon the search of truth ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it."

"Curiosity in children is but an appetite after knowledge."

"The great and chief end of men uniting into commonwealths and putting themselves under government is the preservation of their property."

"Covetousness, ambition, and the pursuit of selfish ends have caused endless miseries."

"Freedom then is not what here I shall speak of, though it too deserves consideration."

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

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

"A man may not so abandon the care of mankind as to let them perish."

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

"To be happy is certainly our chief end, but how to attain it is the great and common question."

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

"Nature never wears one dress long."

"The art of governing often consists in not governing at all."

"Revolutions happen not upon every little mismanagement in public affairs."

"Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and delight without benefit."

"In the conduct of our lives, we must be guided by reason, not by fancy."

"The mind is, as it were, white paper void of all characters, without any ideas."

"Whosoever is found to be a stirrer-up of rebellion is guilty of the greatest wrong to mankind."

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

"The foundation of justice is good faith."