Heraclitus famous quotes

Big results require big ambitions.
-- Heraclitus

#Business #Ambition #Results

There is nothing permanent except change.
-- Heraclitus

#Change

You cannot step into the same river twice.
-- Heraclitus

#Change #Rivers #Steps

Change alone is unchanging.
-- Heraclitus

#Change #Unchanging

The sun is new each day.
-- Heraclitus

#Morning #Each Day #Sun

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

#Journey #Men #Rivers

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

#Heart #Soul #Wish

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

#Inspirational #Integrity #Recovery

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

#Happiness #Children #Men

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.
-- Heraclitus

#Character #Effort #Months

No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.
-- Heraclitus

#Men #Rivers #He Man

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.
-- Heraclitus

#Sleep #Soul #World

The only constant is change.
-- Heraclitus

#Change #Constant

A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
-- Heraclitus

#Stronger #Connections #Uncertain

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

#Years #Voice #Mouths

The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.
-- Heraclitus

#Men #Glory #Preference

One cannot step twice in the same river
-- Heraclitus

#Philosophical #Rivers #Steps

Those who love wisdom must investigate many things
-- Heraclitus

#Love Wisdom

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
-- Heraclitus

#Wise #Wisdom #Men

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

#Eye #People #Soul

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.
-- Heraclitus

#Motivational #Character #Thinking

Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.
-- Heraclitus

#Dog #Ignorance #Bark

Invisible harmony is better than visible.
-- Heraclitus

#Materialism #Invisible #Harmony

Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.
-- Heraclitus

#Progress

Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.
-- Heraclitus

#Change #Flux #Endure

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

#Philosophy #Way

All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.
-- Heraclitus

#Inspirational

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

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

#Peace #Harmony #Discord

The only thing that is constant is change.
-- Heraclitus

#Constant

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

#Happiness #Envy #Lasts

Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.
-- Heraclitus

#Cutting #Doctors #Sick

Nature is wont to hide herself
-- Heraclitus

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

#Couple #Agree #Disagree

Time is a game played beautifully by children.
-- Heraclitus

#Time #Children #Games

Learning many things does not teach understanding
-- Heraclitus

#Understanding #Doe #Teach

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
-- Heraclitus

#Change #Giving #Way

Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.
-- Heraclitus

#Path

Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.
-- Heraclitus

#Rivers #Water #Flow

Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
-- Heraclitus

#Wisdom #Judgment

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
-- Heraclitus

#Lying #Justice #Ethics

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
-- Heraclitus

#Wine #Ignorance #Relax

A man's character is his fate.
-- Heraclitus

#Change #Character #Fate

It is in changing that things find purpose.
-- Heraclitus

#Change #Purpose

History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.
-- Heraclitus

#Children #Men #Sea

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

#Beautiful #Differences #Together

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

#Wine #Ignorance #Evening