Fool Quote by Thomas Hobbes Download Open image “Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.” — Thomas Hobbes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fool Fools Language Men Men Money Money Money Fools Wisdom Wise Wise men Words Counters
Words are the money of fools. Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Words are wise men's counters; they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.” — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding… — Thales Copy Share Image
Fools are those who dont listen to the wise. Wise are those who dont listen to the fools. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A word is enough for the wise, but talkativeness is not enough for the foolish” — Joy Clinton Copy Share Image
“Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure;… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.” — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Not wise, perhaps, to be rude to the Pope's favorite son, but my viper tongue still required a fool now and then on which… — Kate Quinn Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools… — William Booth Copy Share Image
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it — WC Fields Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
