Thomas Hobbes Quotes About Wit

Quotes about: Wit

• A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Liberty, Able

  1651 Leviathan, pt.2, ch.21.

• From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater, without considering whether those little sums were rightly cast up or not; and at last finding the error visible, and not mistrusting their first grounds, know not which way to clear themselves; but spend time in fluttering over their books, as birds that entering by the chimney, and finding themselves enclosed in a chamber, flutter at the false light of a glass window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Book, Errors, Glasses

  Thomas Hobbes (1898). “The Ethics of Hobbes: As Contained in Selections from His Works”

• It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Design, Doctrine

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.510, Simon and Schuster

• 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

• He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Thinking, Prudent

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan, Parts I and II - Revised Edition”, p.50, Broadview Press

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