Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Prudence

Quotes about: Prudence

• Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Past, Times Past, Prudence

  Thomas Hobbes (2013). “Leviathan”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

• Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Equal, Caution

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

• And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible rules, called Science; which very few have, and but in few things; as being not a native faculty, born within us; nor attained, (as Prudence,) while we look after somewhat else.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Art, Science, Skills

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.117, Powell Publications, LLC

• But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by their mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd generall rules.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Fall, Men, Reason

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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