Quotessence
Home / Books / Locke's essays. An essay concerning human understanding. And A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. With the author's last additions

Locke's essays. An essay concerning human understanding. And A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. With the author's last additions

Book by John Locke · 3 quotes · Matter, Mind, Action

Filter quotes by topic

Locke's essays. An essay concerning human understanding. And A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. With the author's last additions Quotes

“I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.”

“As it is in the body, so it is in the mind; practice makes it what it is, and most even of those excellencies, what are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch, only by repeated actions.”

“For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on.”