"Curiosity is the lust of the mind." — Thomas Hobbes

"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."

— Thomas Hobbes

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112 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes has 112 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Isn't your pants' zipper supposed to be in the front?
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be…
There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be…
The world is governed by opinion.
It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do,…
Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or…

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An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but… — David Attenborough
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity,… — Russell Baker
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. — Hosea Ballou
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something… — Franklin P. Adams
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who… — Bruce Barton
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable… — Joseph Addison
When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity. — Martha Beck
In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop. — Robert Benchley
Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they… — Isaiah Berlin
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed… — Ambrose Bierce
Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic… — Andrea Bocelli
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. — Edmund Burke

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