Quote by Pythagoras: “Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few.”

Clarity and brevity are marks of real thought. Filling pages with words is easy; distilling an idea to its essence is hard. Pythagoras believed that the person who truly understands something can express it simply, while the person who doesn't understands it obscures their confusion behind volume.

Pythagoras founded a community in Croton in southern Italy that combined mathematical study with religious practice and strict ethical rules. His followers operated as an intellectual brotherhood in a Greek colonial world where competing philosophical and religious traditions were flourishing across the Mediterranean.

Greek philosopher and mathematician who lived approximately 570–495 BCE, founder of the Pythagorean religious and philosophical movement. He is best known for the theorem bearing his name, though he wrote nothing himself and is known through later sources. He believed mathematics was the fundamental structure underlying all reality.