The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. – John Locke
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. – John Locke
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
It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. – Henry James Sumner Maine