79 Inspirational Heraclitus Quotes
1. “Much learning does not teach understanding.” ~ Heraclitus
2. “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
3. “Much learning does not teach sense.” ~ Heraclitus
4. “Big results require big ambitions.” ~ Heraclitus
5. “Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.” ~ Heraclitus
6. “How can you hide from what never goes away?” – Heraclitus
7. “You cannot step twice into the same river.” ~ Heraclitus
8. “If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.” ~ Heraclitus
9. “The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.” ~ Heraclitus
10. “No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.” ~ Heraclitus
11. “A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.” ~ Heraclitus
12. “Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.” ~ Heraclitus
13. “Any day stands equal to the rest.” ~ Heraclitus
14. “To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.” ~ Heraclitus
15. “If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.” ~ Heraclitus
16. What was gathered, blows away” ~ Heraclitus
17. “If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.” ~ Heraclitus
18. “It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.” ~ Heraclitus
19. “If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods.” ~ Heraclitus
20. “If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.” ~ Heraclitus
21. “The sun is new each day.” ~ Heraclitus
22. “Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.” ~ Heraclitus
23. “What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.” ~ Heraclitus
24. “Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.” ~ Heraclitus
25. “Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.” ~ Heraclitus
26. “Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.” ~ Heraclitus
27. “Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.” ~ Heraclitus
28. “The soul is undiscovered though explored forever to a depth beyond report.” ~ Heraclitus
29. “Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.” ~ Heraclitus
30. “The way up and the way down are one and the same.” ~ Heraclitus
31. “Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.” ~ Heraclitus
32. “I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.” ~ Heraclitus
33. “Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.” ~ Heraclitus
34. “A fool is excited by every word.” ~ Heraclitus
35. “It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.” ~ Heraclitus Quotes
36. “Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.” ~ Heraclitus
37. “Without injustices, the name of justice would mean what?” – Heraclitus
38. “It is in changing that things find purpose.” ~ Heraclitus
39. “The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.” ~ Heraclitus
40. “The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.” ~ Heraclitus
41. “To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting.” ~ Heraclitus
42. “The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.” ~ Heraclitus
43. “The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.” ~ Heraclitus
44. “What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.” ~ Heraclitus
45. “You cannot step into the same river twice.” ~ Heraclitus
46. “Tis not too late to seek a newer world.” ~ Heraclitus
47. “There is nothing permanent except change.” ~ Heraclitus
48. “Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.” ~ Heraclitus
49. “History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.” ~ Heraclitus
50. “Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.” ~ Heraclitus
51. “Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water.” ~ Heraclitus
52. “To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.” ~ Heraclitus
53. “Day by day, what you do is who you become.” ~ Heraclitus
54. “Everything flows, nothing stays still.” ~ Heraclitus
55. “We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.” ~ Heraclitus
56. “Stupidity is doomed, therefore, to cringe at every syllable of wisdom.” ~ Heraclitus
57. “The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.” ~ Heraclitus
58. “All things come into being by conflict of opposites.” ~ Heraclitus
59. “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” ~ Heraclitus
60. “To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes it buys at the price of a soul.” ~ Heraclitus
61. “Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.” ~ Heraclitus
62. “People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city’s walls.” ~ Heraclitus
63. “The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.” ~ Heraclitus
64. “Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them. We should not act and speak like men asleep.” ~ Heraclitus
65. “The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.” ~ Heraclitus
66. “If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.” ~ Heraclitus
67. “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
68. “Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.” ~ Heraclitus
69. “Knowledge is not intelligence.” ~ Heraclitus
70. “Dogs bark at what they don’t understand.” ~ Heraclitus
71. “It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.” ~ Heraclitus
72. “Everything changes and nothing stands still.” ~ Heraclitus
73. “One thunderbolt strikes root through everything.” ~ Heraclitus
74. “Time is a game played beautifully by children.” ~ Heraclitus
75. “Big results require big ambitions.” ~ Heraclitus
76. “Character is destiny.” ~ Heraclitus
77. “What was scattered gathers. What was gathered blows away.” ~ Heraclitus
78. “A man’s character is his fate.” ~ Heraclitus
79. “Man’s character is his fate.” ~ Heraclitus
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