Thales Quotations

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.

Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things.

As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.

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.

Conceal thy domestic ills.

Hope is the most universal of human possessions.

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.

Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.

[One] who is healthy in body, resourceful in soul and of a readily teachable nature.

Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.