Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death.

Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.

The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.

Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,-not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else.

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates; and when the rest said, "We are undone if we are known,"-"But I," said he, "am undone if we are not known.

When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, “Not to unlearn what you have learned!”