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Knowledge Quotes by Thomas Hobbes
- By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have…
- Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut…
- The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
- Desire to know why, and how curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation…
- Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
- Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men…
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