John Locke Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

  John Locke

  Eye, Men, Darkness

  John Locke (1824). “Of human understanding. A 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. A new method of common-place-book”, p.261

• Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.

  John Locke

  Art, Pain, Distance

  John Locke, James Augustus St. John (1872). “Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understanding”, p.128

• Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without them.

  John Locke

  Eye, Perception, Use

  John Locke (1812). “The works of John Locke. To which is added the life of the author and a collection of several of his pieces, publ. by mr. Desmaizeaux”, p.114

• Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

  John Locke

  Grateful, Eye, Light

  John Locke (1778). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education”, p.178

• 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

  Brother, Eye, Men

  John Locke (1796). “A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.27

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