Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

• Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Wise, Wisdom, Witty

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.94, Broadview Press

• A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Wise, Wisdom, Writing

  Thucydides, Thomas Hobbes, David Grene (1989). “The Peloponnesian War”, p.584, University of Chicago Press

• Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Wisdom, Perfect, Matter

  Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, Homer (1841). “The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.3

• For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned, yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves, for they see their own wit at hand, and other men's at a distance. But this proveth rather that men are in that point equal, than unequal. For there is not ordinarily a greater sign of the equal distribution of any thing than that every man is contented with his share.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Wise, Wisdom, Witty

  Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, Homer (1839). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.111

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