Locke & Key

Famous quotes containing the words locke and/or key:

“If a child were kept in a place where he never saw any other but black and white till he were a man, he would have no more ideas of scarlet or green, than he that from his childhood never tasted an oyster, or a pineapple, has of those particular relishes.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)

“All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)