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Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

Thomas Hobbes

Wisdom, Perfect, Matter

Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, Homer (1841). “The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.3

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.

Thomas Hobbes

Wise, Wisdom, Witty

Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.94, Broadview Press

For 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, for they see their own wit at hand, and other men's at a distance. But this proveth rather that men are in that point equal, than unequal. For there is not ordinarily a greater sign of the equal distribution of any thing than that every man is contented with his share.

Thomas Hobbes

Wise, Wisdom, Witty

Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, Homer (1839). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.111