John Locke Quote

The hope of an eternal and incomprehensible happiness in another world is also something that brings constant pleasure.

No human knowledge can go beyond its experience.

The notion that we acquire through the senses of external things, although not as certain as our intuitive knowledge, deserves the name of knowledge.

God has created man as a sociable animal, with the inclination and necessity to live together with beings of his own species, and has also endowed him with language, so that it may be the great instrument and common bond of society.

Each person is orthodox with respect to themselves.

The laws were made for men, and not men for the laws.

The only defense against the world is a perfect knowledge of it.

The teacher's job is not so much to teach everything that can be learned, but to instill in the student love and esteem for knowledge.

Reading provides the mind with only materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read our own.

To love the truth for the sake of truth is the main part of human perfection in this world, and the main seed of all other virtues.

Reading provides the mind with important material of knowledge. And it allows us to think about how to make what we read become our own.