black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.

John Locke

That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
JOHN LOCKE

Care Fancy Parent
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
JOHN LOCKE

Reason Titles Two
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
JOHN LOCKE

Love might Pregnancy
Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Independent Thinking
Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
JOHN LOCKE

Lying Men Procure Truth
Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that ’tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for’t.
JOHN LOCKE

Gentleman Men Opposites
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
JOHN LOCKE

Day Differences Labor May
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
JOHN LOCKE

Body May People
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
JOHN LOCKE

Appetite Children Curiosity
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE

Education Philosophical Wisdom
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
JOHN LOCKE

Demand May Men
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
JOHN LOCKE

Children Men Philosophical
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
JOHN LOCKE

Holding Long Use
When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
JOHN LOCKE

Degrees Landed Talk
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
JOHN LOCKE

Faith Inspiration Reason
And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
JOHN LOCKE

Community Design Liberty

We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More John Locke Quotes