"This dumb ox will fill the world with his bellowing."
— Thomas Aquinas

January 1, 1970

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Albertus Magnus, in response to other of his students calling Thomas a "dumb ox" because of his quietude, as quoted in The Great Ages of Western Philosophy : The Age of Belief : The Medieval Philosophers (1962) by Anne Jackson Fremantle