John Locke Quotes About Reflection

Quotes about: Reflection

• Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

  John Locke

  Inspirational, Education, Reading

  "The Book-Lover's Enchiridion" by Alexander Ireland, (p. 94), 1884.

• When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

  John Locke

  Dream, Philosophical, Reflection

  "An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding".

• If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.

  John Locke

  Simple, Reflection, Ideas

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.98

• These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of REFLECTION, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.

  John Locke

  Reflection, Ideas, Two

  1690 Essay Concerning Human Understanding, bk.2, pt.1, section 4.

• The mind being, as I have declared, furnished with a great number of the simple ideas conveyed in by the senses, as they are found in exterior things, or by reflection on its own operations, take notice, also, that a certain number of these simple ideas go constantly together... which, by inadvertency, we apt afterward to talk of and condier as one simple idea.

  John Locke

  Simple, Reflection, Ideas

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