John Locke on Common and Uncommon Knowledge

“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”

John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding “Dedicatory Epistle” (1690)

Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

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