John Locke
Quotations

"All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it."

- Essay on the Human Understanding

 

"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."

- Essay Concerning Human Understanding

 

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

- Some Thoughts Concerning Education

 

"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."

- Some Thoughts Concerning Education

 

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

- Essay Concerning Human Understanding

 

"It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth."

- Essay Concerning Human Understanding