It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

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

The clear and perfect truth no man has seen, nor will there be anyone who knows about the gods and what I say about all things...; for, however perfect what he says may be, yet he does not know it; all things are matters of opinion.

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.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

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

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.