John Locke Quotes About Doubt

Quotes about: Doubt

• Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas, that are there, 'tis past doubt, that Men have in their Minds several Ideas, such as are those expressed by the words, Whiteness, Hardness, Sweetness, Thinking, Motion, Man, Elephant, Army, Drunkenness, and others: It is in the first place then to be inquired, How he comes by them? I know it is a received Doctrine, That Men have native Ideas, and original Characters stamped upon their Minds, in their very first Being.

  John Locke

  Character, Army, Science

• Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?

  John Locke

  Running, Water, Doubt

  John Locke, David Wootton (1993). “Locke: Political Writings”, p.275, Hackett Publishing

• I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.

  John Locke

  Self, Doubt, Might

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.421

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