John Locke Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and others that make a trade and gain out of them have universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind that they have a way of dealing peculiar to themselves, and not conformed to the good of society and that general fairness which cements mankind.

  John Locke

  Book, Reading, Mind

• With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.

  John Locke

  Book, Giants, Language

• To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

  John Locke

  Book, Men, Giving

• 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.

  John Locke

  Book, Writing, Successful

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

  John Locke

  Book, Men, Thinking

  John Locke (1824). “Essay concerning human understanding (concluded) Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. New method for a common-place book”, p.328

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