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John Locke1632–1704

The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.

John Locke on knowledge

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), Book IV, Ch. 16, sec. 4

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