Quotes - W. Timothy (Louisville, KY) Showing 1-29 of 29

#1

“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”
― Thomas Hobbes

tags: life-lessons, mistakes

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#2

“Hell is truth seen too late.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

tags: hell, timing, truth

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#3

“Leisure is the mother of Philosophy”
― Thomas Hobbes

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#4

“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
― Thomas Hobbes

tags: deception, war

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#5

“Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools. ”
― Thomas Hobbes

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#6

“For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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#7

“God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind that I'll never die".”
― Hobbes

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#8

“... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Man and Citizen

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#9

“A man's conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
― Thomas Hobbes

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#10

“It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.”
― Hobbes

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#11

“Another doctrine repugnant to civil society, is that whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of good and evil. For a man's conscience and his judgement are the same thing, and as the judgement, so also the conscience may be erroneous.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

tags: conscience, judgement, sin

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#12

“The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!”
― John Locke

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#13

“All wealth is the product of labor.”
― John Locke

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#14

“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”
― John Locke, Second Treatise of Government

tags: equality, independence, liberty, of-the-state-of-nature

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#15

“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.”
― John Locke

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#16

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

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#17

“To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.”
― John Locke

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#18

“Few men think, yet all will have opinions. Hence men’s opinions are superficial and confused.”
― John Locke, The Empiricists: Locke: Concerning Human Understanding; Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge & 3 Dialogues; Hume: Concerning Human Understanding & Concerning Natural Religion

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#19

“What worries you masters you.”
― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Volume I

tags: anxiety, stress, worry

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#20

“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.”
― John Locke

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#21

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
― John Locke

tags: actions, interpretation

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#22

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
― Tom Paine

tags: american-revolution

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#23

“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: american-revolution, constitutional-law, democracy, governance, justice, law, us-constitution

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#24

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
― Tom Paine

tags: american-revolution

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#25

“May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole Earth, until the last shock of time shall bury the empires of the whole world in one common undistinguished ruin!”
― Joseph Warren

tags: america, american-revolution, freedom, oppression

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#26

“The true source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think... Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write... Let it be known that British liberties are not the grants of princes or parliaments.”
― John Adams

tags: american-history, american-revolution, history, law, us-history

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#27

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: honesty, honor, integrity, moral-courage, obligation, truth

1103 likes

#28

“Good men don't become legends," he said quietly.
"Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

tags: honor, integrity, moral-courage

739 likes

#29

“It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

tags: honor, men, titles

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