Top 230 Quotes & Sayings by Heraclitus

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

Nature is wont to hide herself.

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

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

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

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.

A man's character is his fate.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

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

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

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

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

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

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

Nothing endures but change.

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

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

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

Change alone is unchanging.

Big results require big ambitions.

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

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

You cannot step into the same river twice.

The sun is new each day.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

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

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

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

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

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

Character is destiny.

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

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

There is nothing permanent except change.

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.

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

How can you hide from what never goes away?

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Nothing is, everything is becoming.

All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.

The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.

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

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.

Day by day, what you do is who you become.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. 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. Your integrity is your destiny ... it is the light that guides your way.

A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.

If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.

Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.

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.

Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.

Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."