Quote

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

Herodotus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Herodotus
Historian
Politician
Writer
Herodotus of Halicarnassus
Herodotus
Father of History
Wisdom
Called
Force
Use
Littles
Little

More quotes by Herodotus

Image
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
Herodotus
Image
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
Herodotus
Image
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
Herodotus
Image
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
Herodotus
Image
Circumstances rule men men do not rule circumstances.
Herodotus
Image
These 'messengers' will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
Herodotus
Image
Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.
Herodotus
Image
But I like not these great successes of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.
Herodotus
Image
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
Herodotus
Image
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
Herodotus
Image
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
Herodotus
Image
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
Herodotus
Image
A general curiosity about the unknown sparked by the multicultural milieu in which I spent my formative years. There was a lot of unknown back then, too. I dare say it was easier to be an explorer then.
Herodotus
Image
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
Herodotus
Image
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
Herodotus
Image
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
Herodotus
Image
Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
Herodotus
Image
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
Herodotus
Image
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
Herodotus
Image
Chances rule men and not men chances.
Herodotus