"Words are the counters of wise men, and…" — Thomas Hobbes
"Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools."
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Thomas Hobbes
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112 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes has 112 quotes on this site.
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Isn't your pants' zipper supposed to be in the front?
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All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
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What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be…
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There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be…
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The world is governed by opinion.
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It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!
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Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do,…
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or…
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More Counters Quotes
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one of 38 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan…
— George W. Bush
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Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from…
— Michel de Montaigne
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An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and…
— Bruce Barton
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After years of study and personal on-site investigation of UFO reports, I am certain that there is more than ample…
— Raymond E. Fowler
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One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters they were…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value…
— Thomas Hobbes
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Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going.…
— Samuel Fuller
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It applies in any business. Shoemakers should be run by shoe guys, and software firms by software guys, and supermarkets…
— Bob Lutz
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My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in…
— Wayne Thiebaud
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No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man…
— John Wyndham
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Affection is important because it counters anger, hatred and suspicion that can prevent our minds from functioning clearly.
— Dalai Lama
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I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell.…
— Jim Butcher
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