John Locke

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

John Locke

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

John Locke

Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

John Locke

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

John Locke

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.

John Locke

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

John Locke

Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.

John Locke

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

John Locke

The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.

John Locke

The difference, so observable in men’s understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

John Locke