"Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto."
― Thomas Hobbes
Topic(s):
Patience
More From Thomas Hobbes
- "During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man."
- "Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves."
- "Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."
More In Patience
- "With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem."― Lascelles Abercrombie
- "People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy."― Laurence Sterne
- "That’s why I never became a director. I never had patience with people."― Ray Harryhausen