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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

Men

Darkness

Eyes

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

John Locke

Character

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

John Locke

Injustice

Property

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

John Locke

Actions

Evil

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

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

John Locke

Support

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

John Locke

Men

Information

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.