Quote

Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

Heraclitus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Heraclitus
Philosopher
Writer
Efes
Heraclitus of Ephesus
Men
Love
Acquainted
Indeed
Wisdom
Many
Must
Things

More quotes by Heraclitus

Image
All is flux nothing stays still.
Heraclitus
Image
Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'
Heraclitus
Image
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
Heraclitus
Image
The only constant in life is change
Heraclitus
Image
Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
Heraclitus
Image
A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot be the result of an immaterial soul.
Heraclitus
Image
No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
Heraclitus
Image
Everything flows and nothing abides everything gives way and nothing stays fixed... Cool things become warm, the warm grows cool the moist dries, the parched becomes moist... It is in changing that things find repose.
Heraclitus
Image
And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
Heraclitus
Image
Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.
Heraclitus
Image
To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.
Heraclitus
Image
The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.
Heraclitus
Image
Learning many things does not teach understanding
Heraclitus
Image
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.
Heraclitus
Image
Those who love wisdom must investigate many things
Heraclitus
Image
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
Heraclitus
Image
Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers the kingdom belongs to a child.
Heraclitus
Image
We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.
Heraclitus
Image
From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.
Heraclitus
Image
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
Heraclitus