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- “Much learning does not teach understanding.” – Heraclitus
- “The sun is new each day.” – Heraclitus
- “To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.” – Heraclitus
- “Change alone is unchanging.” – Heraclitus
- “Character is destiny.” – Heraclitus
- “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” – Heraclitus
- “I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.” – Heraclitus
- “You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.” – Heraclitus
- “No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.” – Heraclitus
- “Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.” – Heraclitus
- “Nothing endures but change.” – Heraclitus
- “A man’s character is his guardian divinity.” – Heraclitus
- “Bigotry is the sacred disease.” – Heraclitus
- “Big results require big ambitions.” – Heraclitus
- “Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.” – Heraclitus
- “The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.” – Heraclitus
- “Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.” – Heraclitus
- “A man’s character is his fate.” – Heraclitus
- “Nature is wont to hide herself.” – Heraclitus
- “There is nothing permanent except change.” – Heraclitus
- “Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.” – Heraclitus
- “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
- “Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.” – Heraclitus
- “The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.” – Heraclitus
- “The way up and the way down are one and the same.” – Heraclitus
- “The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.” – Heraclitus
- “If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.” – Heraclitus
- “Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.” – Heraclitus
- “Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.” – Heraclitus
- “Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.” – Heraclitus
- “You cannot step into the same river twice.” – Heraclitus
- “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.” – Heraclitus
- “Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.” – Heraclitus
- “God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.” – Heraclitus
- “Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.” – Heraclitus
- “Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.” – Heraclitus
- “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
- “The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.” – Heraclitus