The best Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

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.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Spirit Mind & Apprehension Curiosity

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

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After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Spirit Death

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk sign?

Albert Einstein

Spirit Order

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are.

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry James Potter Spirit Funny Insults

Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from an indomitable will.

Mahatma Gandhi

Spirit Strength

The body ages, but the mind is immortal.

Orochimaru in Naruto

Spirit Immortality

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Bernard Williams

Spirit

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

Frank Zappa

Mind & Apprehension

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover

Mind & Apprehension Seeing

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand.

Johannes Kepler

Mind & Apprehension Seeing Hearing & Listening Ohren

Pen, paper and books are the gunpowder of the mind.

Neil Postman

Books Mind & Apprehension Writing

My mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse.

Sean Combs

Mind & Apprehension Head

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

William S. Burroughs

Mind & Apprehension

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

David Hockney

Mind & Apprehension Motivation

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

William Ellery Channing

Mind & Apprehension Quality

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

William Gibson

Mind & Apprehension Languages

Have a strong mind and a soft heart.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Heart Mind & Apprehension

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

John Adams

Mind & Apprehension

Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. I say, fall head over heels. Find someone you can love like crazy and who will love you the same way back. How do you find him? Well, you forget your head, and you listen to your heart.

William Parrish in Meet Joe Black

Heart Love Mind & Apprehension Falling in love

Curiosity is not a sin. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Curiosity

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

Curiosity Falling in love

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Albert Einstein - in einem Brief an Carl Seelig, 1952

Curiosity

We keep moving forward, opening new doors... because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Walt Disney

Progress Curiosity

Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.

Carl Sagan

Upbringing Science Curiosity

The curious fish gets caught!

Daniela Paguro in Luca

Curiosity Fish

When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

B. F. Skinner

Learning Curiosity

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

Oscar Wilde

Humanity Knowledge Curiosity

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

HK-47 in Star Wars Games - Knights of the Old Republic

Boredom Curiosity

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

James Stephens

Curiosity

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Leo Burnett

Curiosity Creativity

A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.

M.J. Rose

Curiosity

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.

Jeremy Taylor

Curiosity

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

China Hackers

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

I will do everything if confirmed as FBI director to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened.

Kash Patel - Januar 2025

The Epstein Files

Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.

James Comey

Smartphones

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