Heraclitus Quotes

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

Big results require big ambitions.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

Change alone is unchanging.

Character is destiny.

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

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

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

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.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

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

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

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

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Nothing endures but change.

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

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

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

The sun is new each day.

There is nothing permanent except change.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

You cannot step twice into the same river; for other waters are continually flowing in.