John Locke Quotes About Truth

Quotes about: Truth

• Who lies for you will lie against you.

  John Locke

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

• To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

  John Locke

  Truth, Honesty, Perfection

  John Locke (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)”, p.3064, Delphi Classics

• It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

  John Locke

  Education, Truth, Philosophical

  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding bk. 4, ch. 7, sec. 11 (1690)

• One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

  John Locke

  Love, Truth, Science

  As paraphrased in "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 500), 1979.

• Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God. . . .

  John Locke

  Truth, Father, Light

  'An Essay concerning Human Understanding' (1690) bk. 4, ch. 19, sect. 4

• Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.

  John Locke

  Truth, Lying, Men

  John Locke (2012). “The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.165, Courier Corporation

• Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason.

  John Locke

  Truth, Judging, Mind

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.530

• Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

  John Locke

  Truth, Science, Men

  John Locke (1706). “An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding: In Four Books”, p.591

• Truth then seems to me, in the proper import of the word, to signify nothing but the joining or separating of Signs, as the Things signified by them do agree or disagree one with another. The joining or separating of signs here meant, is what by another name we call proposition. So that truth properly belongs only to propositions: whereof there are two sorts, viz. mental and verbal; as there are two sorts of signs commonly made use of, viz. ideas and words.

  John Locke

  Truth, Agreement, Names

  John Locke (2015). “An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Volume 2: Top Essays”, p.151, 谷月社

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