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Heraclitus was known as 'The Obscure' because he spoke in riddles. He distinguished between 'polymathy' (knowing many things) and true understanding. 'Much learning does not teach understanding. ' True wisdom, he argued, is the ability to listen to the 'Logos'—the universal reason that orchestrates the cosmos. He teaches that wisdom is a waking state, while most people live as if they are asleep, trapped in their private worlds.
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