--- title: "8 Errors Quotes By Thomas Hobbes" description: "8 Errors quotes by Thomas Hobbes. Plus more from Thomas Hobbes and more Errors sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ca/thomas-hobbes-1127_common_the-most-part-of-men-though-they-have-th_245560.jpg" --- > [The most part of men, though they have the use of reasoning a little way, as in numbering to some degree; yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/the-most-part-of-men-though-they-have-the-use-of-reasoning-a-little/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ca/thomas-hobbes-1127_common_the-most-part-of-men-though-they-have-th_245560.jpg) > [No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/no-mans-error-becomes-his-own-law-nor-obliges-him-to-persist-in-it/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6de/thomas-hobbes-1127_errors_no-mans-error-becomes-his-own-law-nor-ob_619597.jpg) > [From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/from-whence-it-happens-that-they-which-trust-to-books-do-as-they-that/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ec/thomas-hobbes-1127_bird_from-whence-it-happens-that-they-which-t_967792.jpg) > [True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/true-and-false-are-attributes-of-speech-not-of-things-and-where-2/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93d/thomas-hobbes-1127_attributes_true-and-false-are-attributes-of-speech_1304753.jpg) > [When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/when-it-happeneth-that-a-man-signifieth-unto-us-two-contradictory/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43b/thomas-hobbes-1127_consequence_when-it-happeneth-that-a-man-signifieth_1589057.jpg) > [The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/the-errors-of-definitions-multiply-themselves-according-as-the/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd4/thomas-hobbes-1127_absurdity_the-errors-of-definitions-multiply-thems_1920317.jpg) > [The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/the-source-of-every-crime-is-some-defect-of-the-understanding-or-some-2/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81a/thomas-hobbes-1127_crime_the-source-of-every-crime-is-some-defect_2166818.jpg) > [The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/the-enemy-has-been-here-in-the-night-of-our-natural-ignorance-and/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71f/thomas-hobbes-1127_enemy_the-enemy-has-been-here-in-the-night-of_2787334.jpg) ## Other authors on Errors ## More by Thomas Hobbes > [“Give an inch, he'll take an ell.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/give-an-inch-he-ll-take-an-ell/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/do-not-that-to-another-which-thou-wouldst-not-have-done-to-thyself/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/for-it-is-with-the-mysteries-of-our-religion-as-with-wholesome-pills/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/intemperance-is-naturally-punished-with-diseases-rashness-with/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/a-man-s-conscience-and-his-judgment-is-the-same-thing-and-as-the/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/he-that-is-to-govern-a-whole-nation-must-read-in-himself-not-this-or/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/if-men-are-naturally-in-a-state-of-war-why-do-they-always-carry-arms/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/let-a-man-as-most-men-do-rate-themselves-as-the-highest-value-they/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/a-free-man-is-he-that-in-those-things-which-by-his-strength-and-wit/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [“Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/covenants-without-the-sword-are-but-words-and-of-no-strength-to/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/fear-of-things-invisible-in-the-natural-seed-of-that-which-everyone/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/because-silver-and-gold-have-their-value-from-the-matter-itself-they/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/what-reason-is-there-that-he-which-laboreth-much-and-sparing-the/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/the-cause-of-sense-is-the-external-body-or-object-which-presseth-the/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) > [The characters of man's heart, blotted and confounded as they are with dissembling, lying, counterfeiting, and erroneous doctrines, are legible only to him that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/the-characters-of-man-s-heart-blotted-and-confounded-as-they-are-with/) [Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/errors/thomas-hobbes/#itemlist", "name": "8 Errors Quotes By Thomas Hobbes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The most part of men, though they have the use of reasoning a little way, as in numbering to some degree; 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