Best Quotes by John Locke (Top 10)

  1. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
  2. I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
  3. What worries you, masters you.
  4. New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
  5. Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
  6. The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
  7. Revolt is the right of the people
  8. We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
  9. All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
  10. Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

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