Quotes by Hobbes, Thomas

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they ar >>

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact u >>

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of >>

Quotations about Curiosity

All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way >>

Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto >>

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is >>

Desire to know why, and how -- curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge -- exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas