Thomas Hobbes Quotes
Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.Thomas Hobbes
Quotes to Explore
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken -
Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
A. E. Waite -
My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
Natalie Wood -
It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
Fabiola Gianotti -
Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
E. Joseph Cossman -
Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.
Parker Palmer
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
D. H. Lawrence -
The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.
Narendra Modi -
To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
Bayard Rustin -
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Saint Augustine
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The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
Said Nursi -
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
Samuel Johnson -
The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.
Harold Prince -
Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.
Natalie Goldberg -
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Walt Whitman
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What do we mean by "knowledge" or "understanding"? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive neuroscientists are still very vague about the exact meaning of words like "understand," "think," and indeed the word "meaning" itself.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius -
That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.
Paul Tsongas -
[Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative identification. And the children have to come first. It's no use putting off their evening meal for two months.
Libby Houston -
One of the things I most wanted to do in New York was to go to a performance by Martha Graham. For me, she's Miss Mattie T. Graham. I thought she needed something in the middle. If she's going to be an honorary Southerner, she's got to have something in the middle, so I just put an initial T and a period.
Eugene Walter -
Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.
Thomas Hobbes