21 Quotes By Heraclitus


Change alone is unchanging.
Heraclitus on alone

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
Heraclitus on best

There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus on change

Change alone is unchanging.
Heraclitus on change

Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus on change

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 on good

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

Much learning does not teach understanding.
Heraclitus on learning

The sun is new each day.
Heraclitus on morning

Nature is wont to hide herself.
Heraclitus on nature

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 on patience

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
Heraclitus on peace

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
Heraclitus on war

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

Greater dooms win greater destinies.
Heraclitus on adversity

Everything flows; nothing remains.
Heraclitus on change

Change alone is unchanging.
Heraclitus on change

Character is destiny.
Heraclitus on character

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
Heraclitus on eye

Much learning does not teach understanding.
Heraclitus on knowledge