Quote by Thomas Hobbes
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. - Thomas Hobbes

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. – Thomas Hobbes

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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. – Thomas Hobbes

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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. – Bernard De Voto

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Wisdom is digested experience… – Janesville Daily Gazette (Janesville, Wisconsin), 1917 March 29th

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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. – Anne Bradstreet

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Every wise man lives in an observatory. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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When youre young you think that youre going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. – Doris Lessing

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When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didnt have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track. – Buck Baker

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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. – Charles Dickens

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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether thats even possible, interested me. – Ian Mcewan

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