Thomas Hobbes Quotes

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter.

Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood.

There are no wise few.

Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.