The Thoughts of Wesley son of Cornelius

The above picture was painted by Raphel (or Rafael Sanzio de Urbino) in 1509 AD. Several famous ancient "wise men" are depicted in the painting:

1. Aristotle: upheld as greatest philospher of all time
2. Plato: founded Academy School in Athen, very well-known philospher
3. Socrates: taught 'Socratic irony,' the ability to lead listerners to admit their own ignorance by speaking in the negative
4. Xenophon: Greek philosopher who described leadership with his 'Great Man' theory
5. Zeno: Greek philosopher who reasoned that a man's senses could not be trusted
6. Epicurus: Greek philosopher who sought happiness, the chief human good, by removing fear
7. Averroes: Arab philosopher who specialized in Islamic law, mathematics, and medicine
8. Pythagoras: famous Greek philosopher and mathematician (a^2 + b^2 = c^2)
9. Parmenides: Greek philosopher who believed anything that changes cannot be real
10. Heraclitus: Greek philosopher who believed change was real and that all things come from fire
11. Diogenes: Greek philosopher who believed all things come from air
12. Euclid: Greek who wrote Elements, the world's most definitive text on geometry
13. Zoroaster (or Zarathushtra): Iranian prophet who taught the saying, 'Good Thoughts, good words, good deeds'
14. Ptolemy: Greek philosopher who used eccentric circles to explain his geocentric theory of the solar system

(just to name a few!)