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A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.

- January 16, 2021

Quotes / By person / Thales Quotes A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.- - Thales Οὔ τι τὰ πολλὰ ἔπη φρονίμην ἀπεφήνατο δόξαν A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind. As quoted in Diogenes Laërtius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, I, 35; as translated in Dictionary of Quotations (Classical) edited by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 455 Also translated as: "Many words do not declare an understanding heart."

Thales of Miletus

- November 27, 2020

Personalities / Thales of Miletus Quotes / By person / Thales Quotes Thales of Miletus (c. 624 - 546 B.C.) was an early Pre-Socratic philosopher, mathematician and astronomer from the Greek city of Miletus in Ionia (modern-day Turkey). He was one of the so-called Seven Sages of Greece, and many regard him as the first philosopher in the Western tradition. He was the founder of the Milesian School of natural philosophy, and the teacher of Anaximander. He was perhaps the first subscriber to Materialist and Naturalism in trying to define the substance or substances of which all material objects were composed, which he identified as water. His innovative search for a universality in the disciplines of mathematics, astronomy and philosophy have earned him the label the "first scientist". Life Thales (pronounced THAY-lees) was born in the Greek city of Miletus (on the Ionian coast of modern-day Turkey) in about 624 or 625 B.C. (an estimate based on his ag...