John Locke Quotations | Page 4

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.

Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them

Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.

Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.

Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure.

The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.

I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men's discourses... 'Tis not the owning one's dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.