Quotes from John Locke

The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.

Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

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 the better for anything else.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

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.

He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.

To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing.

Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself.

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.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

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.

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

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.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.

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.

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

Justice and truth are the common ties of society

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

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.

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

In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.