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Top 25 Xenophanes Quotes (2025 Update)

Xenophanes Quote: “Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions, making the gods resemble themselves.”

1. “Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions, making the gods resemble themselves.”

Xenophanes Quote: “If horses had Gods, they would look like horses.”

2. “If horses had Gods, they would look like horses.”

Xenophanes Quote: “For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.”

3. “For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.”

Xenophanes Quote: “Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.”

4. “Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.”

Xenophanes Quote: “If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.”

5. “If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.”

Xenophanes Quote: “It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.”

6. “It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.”

Xenophanes Quote: “God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.”

7. “God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.”

Xenophanes Quote: “If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.”

8. “If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.”

Xenophanes Quote: “Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods all things which are disreputable and worthy of blame when done by men; and they told of them many lawless deeds, stealing, adultery, and deception of each other.”

9. “Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods all things which are disreputable and worthy of blame when done by men; and they told of them many lawless deeds, stealing, adultery, and deception of each other.”

Xenophanes Quote: “If God had not made brown honey, men would think figs much sweeter than they do.”

10. “If God had not made brown honey, men would think figs much sweeter than they do.”

Xenophanes Quote: “Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances.”

11. “Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances.”

Xenophanes Quote: “All men begin their learning with Homer.”

12. “All men begin their learning with Homer.”

Xenophanes Quote: “Pure truth no man has seen, nor ever shall know.”

13. “Pure truth no man has seen, nor ever shall know.”

Xenophanes Quote: “The Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black the Thracians that theirs have light blue eyes and red hair.”

14. “The Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black the Thracians that theirs have light blue eyes and red hair.”

Xenophanes Quote: “If an ox could paint a picture, his god would look like an ox.”

15. “If an ox could paint a picture, his god would look like an ox.”

Xenophanes Quote: “In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.”

16. “In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.”

Xenophanes Quote: “No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.”

17. “No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.”

Xenophanes Quote: “For we are all sprung from earth and water.”

18. “For we are all sprung from earth and water.”

Xenophanes Quote: “One god there is, in no way like mortal creatures either in bodily form or in the thought of his mind. The whole of him sees, the whole of him thinks, the whole of him hears. He stays always motionless in the same place; it is not fitting that he should move about now this way, now that.”

19. “One god there is, in no way like mortal creatures either in bodily form or in the thought of his mind. The whole of him sees, the whole of him thinks, the whole of him hears. He stays always motionless in the same place; it is not fitting that he should move about now this way, now that.”

Xenophanes Quote: “This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity.”

20. “This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity.”

Xenophanes Quote: “All things that come into being and grow are earth and water.”

21. “All things that come into being and grow are earth and water.”

Xenophanes Quote: “The sun comes into being each day from little pieces of fire that are collected.”

22. “The sun comes into being each day from little pieces of fire that are collected.”

Xenophanes Quote: “Men always makes gods in their own image.”

23. “Men always makes gods in their own image.”

Xenophanes Quote: “It isn’t right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.”

24. “It isn’t right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.”

Xenophanes Quote: “If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands...”

25. “If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands...”

Xenophanes Quote: “No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will.”

26. “No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will.”

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