John Locke Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

  John Locke

  Motivational, Honesty, Integrity

  John Locke (1825). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author”, p.45

• 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

• All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors (who for the most part are but the great butchers of mankind) farther mislead growing youth, who by this means come to think slaughter the laudable business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues.

  John Locke

  War, Mean, Fighting

  John Locke (1752). “Some Thoughts concerning Education ... The eleventh edition”, p.174

• Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Support, Fortitude

  John Locke, Ruth Weissbourd Grant, Nathan Tarcov (1996). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, Hackett Publishing

• Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue.

  John Locke

  Virtue, Allowance, Esteem

  John Locke, Anthony Douglas Woozley (1964). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.302, Hayes Barton Press

• A young man before he leaves the shelter of his father's house, and the guard of a tutor, should be fortify'd with resolution, and made acquainted with men, to secure his virtues, lest he should be led into some ruinous course, or fatal precipice, before he is sufficiently acquainted with the dangers of conversation, and his steadiness enough not to yield to every temptation.

  John Locke

  Father, Men, Yield

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely and Hume”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

• How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue.

  John Locke

  Pain, Thinking, Evil

  John Locke (1727). “The works of John Locke ...”, p.52

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