Top 100 Quotes About Locke
#1. You know, I like to think my life is kind of like the books I read, only I'm the author. I can write the story I want. The future can be anything I want it to be." He moved his head side to side, considering my words. "That works, as long as your story has a blond stud that fucks like an animal.
Adriana Locke
#2. The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.
Samuel Johnson
#3. We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.
Gary Locke
#4. Until you finally lose the strength for sarcasm, Locke, I wouldn't hire any mourners.
Scott Lynch
#5. Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.
John Locke
#6. Such audacity could never be faked - Locke had to feel it, summon it from somewhere inside, cloak himself in arrogance as though it were an old familiar garment. Locke Lamora became a shadow in his own mind... Locke's complicated lies were this new man's simple truth.
Scott Lynch
#7. Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.
William John Locke
#8. John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!
Bertrand Russell
#9. He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
John Locke
#10. In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
John Locke
#11. Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
John Locke
#12. 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, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!
John Locke
#13. Among golfers the putter is usually known as the payoff club and how right that is! Putting is in fact a game in itself.
Bobby Locke
#14. Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
John Locke
#15. Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
John Locke
#16. I thought you specialised in dishonest finesse?"
"I also do a brisk trade in putting knives to peoples' throats and shouting at them," said Locke.
Scott Lynch
#17. How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
John Locke
#19. Every man's first declaration of love is bathos
the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.
William John Locke
#20. Men always forget that human happiness is a disposition of mind and not a condition of circumstances. - John Locke
Robert Jackson Bennett
#21. You're one third bad intentions, one third pure avarice, and one eighth sawdust. What's left, I'll credit, must be brains.
Scott Lynch
#22. John Locke first began maintaining a commonplace book in 1652, during
Steven Johnson
#23. The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.
John Locke
#24. If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up.
Gary Locke
#25. Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property.
Russell Kirk
#26. I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
John Locke
#27. [Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
John Locke
#28. Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful; which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows.
John Locke
#29. For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can deliver his brother to the executioner to be burnt alive, does sincerely and heartily concern himself to save that brother from the flames of hell in the world to come.
John Locke
#30. Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
John Locke
#31. That's it? 'Damn, it smells like the fishsticks are burning and don't do that with your head, Bode?' What the fuck?
Joe Hill
#32. If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.
Gary Locke
#33. I turn, touch the side of her face and look into her eyes. I hope she can see what I feel in them. I hope she can see that I've loved her since the day I fucking saw her. I hope she can see that I will love her 'til the day I die.
Adriana Locke
#34. Time's a river, Locke, and we've always drifted farther down it than we think.
Scott Lynch
#35. Ha! Yes. When anyone tells you habits die hard, Locke, they're lying - it seems they never die at all.
Scott Lynch
#36. We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us; nor is it to be wonder'd at in children, who better understand what they see than what they hear.
John Locke
#37. I've been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they've been in existence. 'Ninja Turtles' is one of my all-time favorite properties ever. I also love, love, love 'Locke & Key.' I also love some of the things they do with pre-existing properties like 'Transformers' and 'Ghostbusters.'
Taran Killam
#38. But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
John Locke
#39. Life does pack a punch. But it's the scars that make us who we are, that tell the story of the life we lived.
Adriana Locke
#40. 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.
John Locke
#41. James scoffed. "We are not being held prisoner. You're so dramatic."
"Oh yeah, she just kidnapped us and told us the only way we're going to be let go is if we go to other alien planets and steal from them. You're right, James, I'm clearly overly overreacting," Kat snapped.
L. Taylor
#42. Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.
John Locke
#43. Self-esteem is an essential psychological need - no one can live with the conviction that they are fundamentally no good, so people who lack the real thing attempt to fake it.
Edwin A. Locke
#44. So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
John Locke
#45. Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.
William John Locke
#47. Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
John Locke
#48. The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
John Locke
#49. Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption: therefore, always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, and declare it, together with the reasons that move thee to change.
John Locke
#50. Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason.
John Locke
#51. You are beyond mad," said Locke after several moments of silent, furious thought. "Full-on barking madness is a state of rational bliss to which you may not aspire. Men living in gutters and drinking their own piss would shun your company. You are a prancing lunatic.
Scott Lynch
#52. Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.
William Butler Yeats
#53. There are some Men of one, some but of two Syllogisms, and no more; and others that can but advance one step farther.
John Locke
#54. The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks, and the voice of the New Negro is heard.
Alain LeRoy Locke
#56. The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees, as he can bear it; and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.
John Locke
#57. Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.
John Locke
#58. A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little better for anything else.
John Locke
#59. Are you smarter than a pig, Locke?"
"On occasion," said Locke. "There are contrary opinions.
Scott Lynch
#60. How would you be able to detect a fart over your natural odor, Sanza?" "For shame," said Galdo. "There's no Sanzas here, remember? I'm an Asino." "Oh yes," said Locke with a yawn. "Yes, you certainly are.
Scott Lynch
#61. Live snakes?' said one of the scribes. 'You mean-'
'Yeah,' said Locke. 'They've got scales, they slither around - snakes. Keep up.
Scott Lynch
#62. Some of the other students were out on the grass in front of Alain Locke Hall, in pink and green, chanting, singing, stomping, clapping, stepping.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#63. So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
John Locke
#64. Chains reached over and grabbed Locke's fist, then mimed swinging it into Calo's jaw. "Repeat as necessary," said Chains, "until your problems are spitting up teeth.
Scott Lynch
#66. Locke threw himself at Father Chains, and the man, without hesitation, scooped him up and held him, patting his back until his racking sobs quieted down.
Scott Lynch
#67. If you take you away from me, you take everything.
Adriana Locke
#68. Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
John Locke
#69. There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
John Locke
#70. 'Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
John Locke
#71. I'm somewhat overwhelmed by the microblogging that takes place in China, and the smartphones and all the people that want to take pictures of myself and my family.
Gary Locke
#72. Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.
Gary Locke
#73. Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
Gary Locke
#74. If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he ... will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
John Locke
#75. Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
John Locke
#76. it to Miss Pinehurst, and, putting her arm around her,
M. Louisa Locke
#77. He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.
John Locke
#78. Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
John Locke
#79. Locke moaned.
'Quit sobbing, you damn baby,' Jean hissed as he began to lope back along the dock. 'You must have at least a half beer glass of blood left somewhere in there.'
But Locke was now well and truly unconscious ...
Scott Lynch
#80. Western philosophy, then, is not an extended debate about knowledge, ethics, and reality, but a succession of conceptual metaphors. Descartes's philosophy is based on KNOWING IS SEEING, Locke's on the MIND IS A CONTAINER, Kant's on MORALITY IS A STRICT FATHER, and so on.
Steven Pinker
#81. You shouldn't try to play games with me because I'm not a player, I'm the coach."
~ Cane
Adriana Locke
#82. Hope is what we all build lives for ourselves upon, is it not?
Scott Lynch
#83. 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
#84. It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.
John Locke
#85. My skin still sings from his touch. His cologne lingers on my shirt, the air kissed by his presence.
Adriana Locke
#86. We go now," said Locke, "or I leave you here to die. Understanding is a luxury; you don't get to have it. Sorry.
Scott Lynch
#87. The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.
William John Locke
#88. New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
John Locke
#89. It's not just the words we speak in a moment, but the weight of words over the course of time that matters. The words you choose every day add up. You are the words you speak, whether that's constructive or destructive.
Adriana Locke
#90. We welcome Chinese investment in the United States with open arms.
Gary Locke
#91. I have toured with Klemens Marktl, playing his original compositions and arrangements. He is a wonderful drummer, a writer possessing a high degree of creativity, and an assured band leader.
Joe Locke
#92. Barsavi knew how to create expectations, Locke, and how to use those expectations to mislead those who would harm him.
Scott Lynch
#93. I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
John Locke
#95. There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin'd Words.
John Locke
#97. Nah, if she's the rose, he can be her thorn." Calo snapped his fingers. "The Thorn of Camorr! Now, that's got some shine to it!"
"That's the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard," said Locke.
Scott Lynch
#98. A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
John Locke
#99. False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.
John Locke
#100. Well, if only I wasn't too much the gentleman to flay your spirit with a witty and cutting retort, madam, you'd be ... thoroughly ... um, wittily retorted at this very instant. - Locke Lamora
Scott Lynch
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