"Words are the money of fools." — Thomas Hobbes
"Words are 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 Fools Quotes
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one of 1,120 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
— Francis Bacon
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Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
— Douglas Bader
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When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
— Russell Baker
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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
— Honore de Balzac
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For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and…
— Honore de Balzac
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete…
— Douglas Adams
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The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
— Bernard Baruch
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Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
— Robert Benchley
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Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes…
— Ambrose Bierce
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There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
— Josh Billings
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