Thales famous quotes

04-05-2025

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
-- Thales

#Good Life #Life Is #Know Yourself
Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
-- Thales

#Stronger #Submit #Active
Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.
-- Thales

#Men #Common #Anticipation
Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.
-- Thales

#Good Life #Blame #Doing Good
[One] who is healthy in body, resourceful in soul and of a readily teachable nature.
-- Thales

#Soul #Healthy #Body
The past is certain, the future obscure.
-- Thales

#Past #Obscure #Certain
I did not become a father because I am fond of children.
-- Thales

#Children #Father
Take Time by the forelock.
-- Thales

#Take Time
Conceal thy domestic ills.
-- Thales

#Secrecy
There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.
-- Thales

#Grateful #Men #Animal
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.
-- Thales

#Mind #Prudent #Proof
Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and so proved that the pyramid [height] was to the stick [height] as the shadow of the pyramid to the shadow of the stick.
-- Thales

#Two #Pyramids #Shadow
Hope is the most universal of human possessions.
-- Thales

#Possession #Humans
As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.
-- Thales

#Brightness #Labor #Idleness
What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature.
-- Thales

#Health #Men #Mind
I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was mine.
-- Thales

#Science #Engineering #Discovery
Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things.
-- Thales
All things are from water and all things are resolved into water.
-- Thales

#Water #Creation
Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.
-- Thales

#Good Life #Ruins #Dogma
Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.
-- Thales

#Good Life #Light #Wisest
We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air
-- Thales

#Future #Ocean #Reality

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