Heraclitus

Much learning does not teach understanding.

— Heraclitus

Nothing endures but change.

— Heraclitus

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

— Heraclitus

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

— Heraclitus

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

— Heraclitus

Time is a game

— Heraclitus

Ten thousand do not turn the scale against a single man of worth.

— Heraclitus

Greater fates gain greater rewards

— Heraclitus

The many are mean; only the few are noble.

— Heraclitus

Although the Law of Reason is common, the majority of people live as though they had an understanding of their own.

— Heraclitus

Men are at variance with the one thing with which they are in the most unbroken communion, the reason that administers the whole universe.

— Heraclitus

All human laws are nourished by one divine law.

— Heraclitus

The sun is new each day.

— Heraclitus

Change alone is unchanging.

— Heraclitus

You cannot step into the same river twice.

— Heraclitus

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

— Heraclitus

Nothing endures but change.

— Heraclitus

The sun is new each day.

— Heraclitus

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

— Heraclitus

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

— Heraclitus

A man's character is his fate.

— Heraclitus

Nothing endures but change.

— Heraclitus

Much learning does not teach understanding.

— Heraclitus

Change alone is unchanging.

— Heraclitus

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

— Heraclitus

Nature is wont to hide herself.

— Heraclitus

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

— Heraclitus

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

— Heraclitus

There is nothing permanent except change.

— Heraclitus

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

— Heraclitus

Big results require big ambitions.

— Heraclitus

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

— Heraclitus

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

— Heraclitus

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

— Heraclitus

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

— Heraclitus

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

— Heraclitus

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

— Heraclitus

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

— Heraclitus

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

— Heraclitus

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

— Heraclitus

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

— Heraclitus

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

— Heraclitus

You cannot step into the same river twice.

— Heraclitus

The sun is new each day.

— Heraclitus

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

— Heraclitus

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

— Heraclitus

Character is destiny.

— Heraclitus

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

— Heraclitus

Stupidity is doomed,

— Heraclitus

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

— Heraclitus

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

— Heraclitus

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

— Heraclitus

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

— Heraclitus

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

— Heraclitus

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

— Heraclitus

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

— Heraclitus

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

— Heraclitus

Nothing endures but change.

— Heraclitus

Change alone is unchanging.

— Heraclitus

There is nothing permanent except change.

— Heraclitus

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

— Heraclitus