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Top 20 Thales Quotes (2025 Update)

Thales Quote: “The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”

1. “The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”

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Thales Quote: “All things are from water and all things are resolved into water.”

2. “All things are from water and all things are resolved into water.”

Thales Quote: “Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.”

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

Thales Quote: “Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.”

4. “Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.”

Thales Quote: “A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.”

5. “A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.”

Thales Quote: “Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents.”

6. “Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents.”

Thales Quote: “Hope is the most universal of human possessions.”

7. “Hope is the most universal of human possessions.”

Thales Quote: “Take Time by the forelock.”

8. “Take Time by the forelock.”

Thales Quote: “Conceal thy domestic ills.”

9. “Conceal thy domestic ills.”

Thales Quote: “As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.”

10. “As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.”

Thales Quote: “The past is certain, the future obscure.”

11. “The past is certain, the future obscure.”

Thales Quote: “We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air.”

12. “We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air.”

Thales Quote: “Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.”

13. “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 Quote: “I did not become a father because I am fond of children.”

14. “I did not become a father because I am fond of children.”

Thales Quote: “Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it’s needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.”

15. “Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it’s needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.”

Thales Quote: “Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.”

16. “Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.”

Thales Quote: “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.”

17. “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 Quote: “Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things.”

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

Thales Quote: “If there is a change, there must be some thing that changes, yet does not change.”

19. “If there is a change, there must be some thing that changes, yet does not change.”

Thales Quote: “If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.”

20. “If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.”

Thales Quote: “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.”

21. “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 Quote: “When he was asked why he did not have children, he replied, “because of my love for children.” And they say that when his mother tried to compel him to marry he would say, “It is not yet the right time,” and then, as she insisted when he was no longer young, “It is no longer the right time.”

22. “When he was asked why he did not have children, he replied, “because of my love for children.” And they say that when his mother tried to compel him to marry he would say, “It is not yet the right time,” and then, as she insisted when he was no longer young, “It is no longer the right time.”

Thales Quote: “The way of living virtuously is by never doing ourselves what we blame in others.”

23. “The way of living virtuously is by never doing ourselves what we blame in others.”

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