Heraclitus on Wisdom Quotes

"Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it."

"A dry soul is wisest and best."

"Much learning does not teach understanding."

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

"The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own."

"Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever."

"Immortals are mortals, mortals immortals, living their death, dying their life."

"It is not better for men to get all they wish to get."

"Dogs bark at what they cannot understand."

"Character is destiny."

"Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant."

"There is nothing permanent except change."

"Dogs bark at what they do not understand."

"Good and ill are one."

"Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature."

"Abundance is nothing but lack."

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

"Nature loves to hide."

"Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed."

"Hidden harmony is better than obvious."

"Wisdom is the goal of the soul."

"Thinking is a sacred disease."

"The path up and the path down are one and the same."

"Time is a game played beautifully by children."

"If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult."

"Dogs bark at what they do not know."

"Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise."

"Listening not to me but to the Logos it is wise to agree that all things are one."

"Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars."